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Setting the stage: The exhibition hall  at Lahore's Expo Centre Fortress Stadium just before opening ceremonies.

John Feizy, right, founder and president of Feizy Rug,
Dallas, with Usman Ashraf, chief export officer of Usman Carpet House, Lahore.

Arya Momeni, right, a principal of Momeni, with Zafar Iqbal Khalid, Momeni's trade show coordinator.

Asif Nazire Khan of Miaco International, Lahore, with Edward Verdiev, a principal of Pasargard, New York.
Asif is Cooki Khan's son, so do we call him Cookala?

From the China Chamber of Commerce: Zhang Zhibiao, vice secretary general and Ou Meng, director of the Chamber's department of foodstuffs, native produce and animal by-products.

Kamran Razi of Standard Carpet, Lahore

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Cooki Khan, center, president of Miaco, Lahore, and chairman of the World Hand Made Carpet Association, with John Kantonias, left, commercial manager of international sales  and Thanos Tsiaras, commercial manager of domestic sales  of Biokarpet, Athens, Greece.

Zahid Perwez, center, of Rug Merchants, Secaucus, NJ, with Mian Faakhir Saeed, left, and Mian M. Saeed,
the father and son management team at
 Ather Corp., Lahore.

Saeed Aslam, left, and Ayesha Saeed of Handmade Legends, the high end rug and home furnishings chain based in Scottsdale, AZ. Aslam and Saeed, like several other Americans attending the show, had just come from the Iran rug show in Tehran.

Umar Khan, left, of Imperial Carpets, Lahore, with Zahid Majid, of Bokhara Oriental Rugs, the big importer based in Quebec, Canada.

Yes, it's camera hog Lissa Wyman, editor and publisher of Rugnews.com with this  European group: Mirfattahi Farhad,  and Ali Rahimi of Rahimi & Rahimi in Vienna,Vera Devos of Exclusive, Vichte, Belgium and, of course, Lissa Wyman. Rahimi told us that, at the end of October, his company will exhibit an original Freud carpet  as part of the city of Vienna's celebration of Freud's 150th birthday. The carpet, on loan from London's Freud museum, was  made famous by the classic photo of Freud's office in Vienna.

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