Senior Vice Chairman Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PCMEA) Usman Ashraf Sunday said that contacts are being held with the international investors and purchasers of Handmade International Carpet Exhibition scheduled to be held in October this year in Pakistan.
The PCMEA Vice Chair also expressed the hope that Trade Development Authority of Pakistan and other relevant departments of the government will cooperate and extend their complete support in holding the international exhibition and making the exhibition a success.
Chairing a meeting to review the international carpet exhibition arrangements, the PCMEA Vice Chairman appreciated the agreement between the government of Pakistan and International Monetary Fund IMF. He termed the agreement a major success and said that the country will be stabled economically due to this agreement. The meeting was also attended by Chairman Carpet Training Institute Ejazur Rehman, Senior Central leaders Abdul Rauf Malik, Parvez Hanif, Riaz Ahmed, Saeed Khan, Muhammad Akbar Malik, Major Retired Akhtar Nazir, Shahid Hassan, Umair Usmain and others.
The participants of the meeting were briefed about the preparations and arrangements being made for holding the international carpet exhibition. Usman Ashraf has urged the government to devise a policy for approaching the international markets, especially the countries which were ignored earlier.
He also demanded for formation of a contact directory by the Pakistanis missions abroad and asked the government to direct the missions abroad to work on the contact movement. He added that all the missions abroad should invite the carpet investors and importers at the missions and brief them about the handmade Pakistani carpet and their utilities.
He said that all Pakistanis manufacturers and exporters should also be educated about the preparations of the quality of products for a positive and attractive result in international market.
He said correspondence was being started with foreign buyers in advance and the association was also considering the proposal of sending delegations to countries where Pakistani products were in high demand.—NNI
