Introduction

KHS Securities (Pvt.) Limited is a leading securities firm providing financial services to a large and diversified group of foreign and local institutional and individual clients. KHS Securities is the top broker in equity sales and trading. KHS Securities is the innovator in the capital markets. The firm has assembled a core team of expert professionals with a high level of integrity, financial acumen and industry experience. KHS Securities Founder Khawaja Hamad Saeed has a vast experience in the running and successfully managing the affairs of a brokerage house. Khawaja Hamad Saeed has served as the President and Chairman of the Lahore Stock Exchange in 1993-94 1997-98 and 2000. He is well known personality and by the grace of God highly respected in the business community in and outside of the Stock Exchange. By the Grace of God he has contributed and helped bring the Stock Exchange to where it is today with its new building, computerized trading and efficient clearing house just to name a few of his achievements. For his achievements he was awarded a Role of Hon our in 1998 by the Finance minister of Pakistan Mr. Ishaq Dar.

In 1993 it was decided that LSE will do away with “Open out Cry” method of trading and move towards the computerized trading module. Directors from the Lahore Stock Exchange were sent to Hong Kong to select software that will serve the purposes of LSE. A company by the name of EFA software based in Canada was selected and it was Khawaja Hamad Saeed who took on the responsibility of guiding the team of EFA software engineers and designers to build, operate and transfer a software trading package catering to the peculiar needs of our stock markets including the Carry Over Trade (COT) and Negotiated Trade which were a very unique phenomena, specifically evolved in our sub-continent. By the Grace of God with in a year and half of signing of the contract LSE successfully achieved its goal. Not only this but Karachi Stock Exchange (G) Ltd (KSE) also purchased the same software from EFA. This could never have been achieved had it not been the endless hard work and dedications of the team involved and this achievement has gone a long way in establishing the capital markets of Pakistan.
Khawaja Hamad Saeed also realized that this trading software of EFA will not adhere to the exchanges future needs, also being costly to maintain, the IT Department of LSE was given the green signal to start its development on its own trading system. As Chairman of LSE in year 2000 Khawaja Hamad Saeed successfully guided the IT Department and launched this trading software. This was a great achievement and a major step in the development of LSE. It is with great pride that one can say that it was the vision, understanding and planning Khawaja Hamad Saeed and the dedication of the team involved that contributed to the developments of LSE and later again this software was purchased by KSE.

He started as an Investor in 1960’s and in 1979 he acquired a membership in his own name. Subsequently he converted his individual membership and formed KHS Securities (Pvt.) Ltd. Which is a Corporate member of the Lahore Stock Exchange. Ten years prior to the formation of the present day pvt Ltd company, KHS Securities Chief Executive & Managing Director Mr. Rahman Saleem had played a major role in the success, working and modernization of the brokerage house, and was the first broker in Lahore Stock Exchange (LSE) that modernized the concept of running the daily affair of the brokerage house. Realizing the potential of computers the immediately realized the enormous advantage of building a back office software. Within a short period of time the software developed by him was modified by the IT department of the LSE to suit the needs of the other members of the exchange and is now being used by most of the houses in LSE.