LAHORE - The Carpet Exhibition 2012, organised in country’s historical city Lahore from Oct 7-9 by Pakistan Carpets Manufacturers & Exporters Association (PCMEA), is succeeded in attracting thousands of visitors to visit.
For everyone, the exhibition offered an open opportunity to see achievements of carpet industry and its huge investments and share of opening new job avenues, said the PCMEA outgoing central chairman Sheikh Khalid Saeed, who was among few real architects of exhibition. He said that the exhibition was also a morale booster for the new investors.
Apart from the contribution of local industry, the exhibition definitely offered many new varieties of hand-knotted carpets to the visitors, as they were seen searching for fresh designs. The mega show attracted both foreign buyers and visitors, as the sizable presence of foreigners amazed everyone keeping in view of law and order situation in the country.
The chief organiser of show said that PCMEA had focused more to ensure huge participation of local people, new investors, students and general public in order to create awareness about the working and achievements of carpet sector, besides highlighting them about the targets achieved so far.
He said that he and all other office-bearers of PCMEA made hectic efforts in last one year for making fair a success story. He appreciated full support of prominent figures of carpet sector, including WHO Chairman Akhtar Nazir Cooki, chief coordinator Aslam Tahir, ex-chairman Mian Javedur Rehman, newly-elected chairman Shahid Rashid and newly-elected vice chairman of North Muhammad Seed Khan.
All stallholders had tried to attract a number of visitors by arranging colourful and new variety of carpets. The outgoing chairman said that the carpet show 2012 has become the largest showcase of Pakistan’s carpet merchandise and services. The event was visited by a large number of buyers from across the world while around 50 national companies displayed their products in the exhibition.
Federal Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin inaugurated three-day fair at Expo Centre.
Sheikh Khalid Saeed said that solid steps require for the development of carpet industry and the government should provide full security and safety for foreign investors in this regard. He said that Pakistan has huge potential of earning foreign exchange through export of carpet as the local companies have achieved excellence in high levels of quality and international standards.