How Kashmir scored an ideal objective in Qatar
3 min readExpress News Service
SRINAGAR: When the Qatar authorities positioned an order for 70,000 Kashmiri pashmina shawls with FIFA brand on them, to be delivered at brief discover, the officers weren’t anticipating to obtain the handmade product in time for the World Cup.
However, the enterprising Kashmiri businessman Wasim Rifat, who runs a scarf manufacturing unit known as Aslam Exports, shocked them by delivering the order two days earlier than the World Cup began, enabling Qatar to offer away the famed Pashmina shawls as present to the company and VIPs through the FIFA World Cup.
How did Wasim pull it off?
“About 35-40 days before the start of the World Cup, I received an order for supplying 70,000 Pashmina shawls. It was a very tough job to complete the order on time,” mentioned Wasim. He, then, employed as many as 4,000 artisans from throughout the Valley to fulfil the order.
“The artisans worked in double shifts (day and night) to complete the work. They worked very hard and we managed to complete the weaving of 70,000 Pashmina shawls in 35 days, two days ahead of the World Cup,” he mentioned.
Wasim, who had stop his networking engineering enterprise to change over to Kashmir arts enterprise, mentioned when he knowledgeable the Qatari authorities about completion of the job, they had been amused. “It is a miracle,” Wasim quoted the Qatar officers as saying, including, “In fact, they were not expecting the order to be completed on time.”
Pashmina
Pashmina shawls are recognized for his or her light and heat weight. It is a wonderful wool extracted from goats present in Ladakh
SRINAGAR: When the Qatar authorities positioned an order for 70,000 Kashmiri pashmina shawls with FIFA brand on them, to be delivered at brief discover, the officers weren’t anticipating to obtain the handmade product in time for the World Cup.
However, the enterprising Kashmiri businessman Wasim Rifat, who runs a scarf manufacturing unit known as Aslam Exports, shocked them by delivering the order two days earlier than the World Cup began, enabling Qatar to offer away the famed Pashmina shawls as present to the company and VIPs through the FIFA World Cup.
How did Wasim pull it off?
“About 35-40 days before the start of the World Cup, I received an order for supplying 70,000 Pashmina shawls. It was a very tough job to complete the order on time,” mentioned Wasim. He, then, employed as many as 4,000 artisans from throughout the Valley to fulfil the order.
“The artisans worked in double shifts (day and night) to complete the work. They worked very hard and we managed to complete the weaving of 70,000 Pashmina shawls in 35 days, two days ahead of the World Cup,” he mentioned.
Wasim, who had stop his networking engineering enterprise to change over to Kashmir arts enterprise, mentioned when he knowledgeable the Qatari authorities about completion of the job, they had been amused. “It is a miracle,” Wasim quoted the Qatar officers as saying, including, “In fact, they were not expecting the order to be completed on time.”
Pashmina
Pashmina shawls are recognized for his or her light and heat weight. It is a wonderful wool extracted from goats present in Ladakh
