RIYADH — The Pakistan Embassy is organizing the 4th consecutive Food & Mango Festival at Intercontinental Hotel in Riyadh during Aug. 14-16. Pakistan Ambassador Manzoor ul Haq will inaugurate the festival, to mark the independence day of Pakistan, according to Commercial Attaché Waseem Bajwa. "The main objective of this event is to promote Pakistani cuisines and Pakistani food products like rice, spices, meat, pickles, drinks and Pakistani companies through a catalog show and other products," Bajwa added. This year the event has a special significance, as it is part of the Independence Day celebrations of Pakistan. The event is open for three days subject to tickets with restricted tickets of 800 for first two days and 200 tickets available for the last day. The first day will predominantly cover the festivities of Pakistan's independence day. The second day is also open for public with tickets and the festivities will continue. The third day is primarily reserved for diplomats, Saudis and Pakistani dignitaries but the 200 tickets will be available for general public. Gold Sponsors of the festival are Mehran Foods, Abahsein Group, and Qarshi Pakistan. Other main sponsors are Bank Albilad, GMT, Renault, Pakistan Investors Forum, Warraich Rice Mills, Al Mina Group, Tamimi, Green Towers. The festival will have special cuisines of all the four provinces with live barbecue, sajji and biryani stalls in addition to the Intercontinental buffet. Mango sweet pavilion, special mango stall (Khokha), jalebi, kulfi etc in addition to the routine sweets offered by Intercontinental will be available. Music and raffle draws on all the three days with all the above extras, will be the fare. The Intercontinental Hotel has given a subsidized offer of only SR150/person exclusively for Pakistan Embassy. The tickets will be available on first come first served basis and are available at the commercial section of Pakistan Embassy in Riyadh.
