ISLAMABAD, Jan 6: Pakistan will gift four sherwanis to Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, for which he has chosen the designer who designs sherwanis for President Gen Pervez Musharraf.

Fashion designer Amir Adnan has been assigned to prepare the sherwanis for Mr Vajpayee on the recommendation of the minister-in-waiting for the Indian prime minister, Shaukat Aziz.

Mr Adnan said he received the call from the finance minister on Monday and met the Indian prime minister with a sample of traditional clothes he had designed.

Mr Adnan said he was told by the Indian prime minister to make an embroidered sherwani like the one worn by the late prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during his visit to India in the 1970s.

He said that during his visit to Pakistan in the 1970s, Mr Vajpayee had worn a sherwani designed by a designer who had worked for both Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru.