LAHORE, Oct 9: Governor’s wife Rubina Khalid will inaugurate WEXNET 2003, the fourth four-day annual exhibition of the Women Exporters’ Network, at the Aiwan-i-Iqbal here on Oct 17.

Export Promotion Bureau director-general Navid Akram Cheema said this while briefing newsmen on WEXNET here on Thursday.

He said 103 women entrepreneurs had been selected from 250 applicants for participation in the exhibition. Exporters and wholesale and retail buyers had been invited to attend the conference.

Mr Cheema said a walk and a dress show would be held on the first day and again on Oct 18 accompanied by a music show and an export training session for the exhibitors. A seminar would be held at Avari on Oct 20 on export marketing, cluster/cooperative development which would be followed by the closing ceremony.

He said the EPB had set up the WEXNET and started its annual exhibitions at Karachi and Lahore to promote exports by women entrepreneurs.

He said the EPB had been encouraging women entrepreneurs to enter the export market for the past two years. Of 300 women registered by the EPB, 25 had entered the export market. An average 15 per cent women exporters were being accommodated in every international exhibition abroad and at least one woman was being included in all the trade delegations proceeding abroad. Women exporters were also being trained in export procedures and documentation.