President stresses promoting Pak fashion design, textile products.

LAHORE -- President Dr Arif Alvi has urged the need for utilising online and virtual platforms to promote and market PakiAstan's fashion design, textile, and art and craft products at the international level, adding that increasing the presence of goods on virtual and online platforms could help popularAise innovative Pakistani fashAion products.

The president expressed these views during his visit to the Pakistan Institute of Fashion Design (PIFD), here on Monday. First Lady Begum Samina Arif Alvi also accomApanied the president during the visit. The president was briefed by the Institute's adAministration about the role, performance, educational faAcilities and the future plans of the institute.

During the briefing, the president said that in order to make students productive part of society in a brief period of time, they should be equipped with skills through short-term courses. He added that the world was already imparting education and skills to fulfill the market needs through short-term courses. He said that the associate degree holders and specialised certificate holders were being given employment in different sectors of the econAomy across the globe.

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