PESHAWAR: Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry will organise the 5th Women Entrepreneurs Trade Fair in Peshawar on August 7.

The two-day fair to be held at the Palm Marquee, University Road, will be open to women and families only from 11am to 11pm, according to a press release issued here on Tuesday.

The event is aimed at holding activities for business and skilled women to encourage them to market their products. The organisers have established various stalls to showcase cultural and traditional dresses, local and traditional foods, music and fashion shows and children zones.

The stalls would display handicraft, clothing, gemstones, handmade jewellery, stone jewellery, leather products, mosaic and jute work, purses and clutches, beauty products, Swat shawls, bed sheets, baby clothing, toys, kitchen utensils, food items and a lot more.

Famous folk singers and artistes would also entertain the visitors. Women entrepreneurs from Peshawar, Swat, Hazara, Abbottabad, Haripur, Mansehra, Mardan, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Chitral and Gilgit, Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, Karachi and Islamabad would participate in the fair.

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2018

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