Nazar Optics — H-block

The eye gets a quote, not a guess

Nazar Optics opened in 1975 as a single wooden cabinet in the H-block market, when Karim Bakhsh the optician ground lenses on a foot-wheel and knew a customer's face before their prescription. Three generations later the cabinet is still the first thing you see — his granddaughter, Dr. Amna Raza, an optometrist, keeps the exam chair where the trial-frame set used to sit. Frames are bought by the dollar and priced by it; lenses are never guessed. Your prescription, your index, a quote at the counter, half deposit, and the glasses come back in a week — the same words her grandfather used, now written into the order.

Karim Bakhsh ground lenses on a foot-wheel from 1975; his son Raza Ahmed added the contact-lens counter in the nineties; Dr. Amna Raza qualified as an optometrist in 2015 and moved the eye exam inside the shop — the first on the block to do it.

Nazar Optics — H-block

H-block Market, Phase 3, DHA, Lahore

Lahore, Punjab 54000