Mission of Pakistan Ordnance Factories is:-
To meet the requirements of arms and ammo of defence forces during peace and war time.
To utilize surplus capacity for commercial and export purposes.
To manage and administer factory affairs and run them on sound commercial lines.

After the emergence of Islam in the sub continent in 712 A.D, when Muhammad Bin Qasim(an Arab General) made an entry to this strategically important region of South Asia, the Muslims ruled India for almost one thousand years. The decline of Mughal Empire, however, created a vacum, which was immediately exploited by the British East India Company resulting in British rule of the sub continent for nearly one hundred years. During their colonial rule, the British raised sixteen ordnance factories prior to Second World War to thwart strategic threats posed to their occupation. At the time of creation of Pakistan in 1947, all those sixteen factories fell to Indian share since no one of them were located in Muslim majority areas. Newly created Pakistan with fragile state apparatus and fragmented Armed Forces, had absolutely no arms & ammunition manufacturing facility to meet the security challenges to its sovereignty.