By
Amin H. Karim
June 15 1957; Begum Naheed Iskander Mirza inaugurating the symposium of Pakistan Institute of Industrial Design in Karachi. Photo source unknown:
Syed Ahmed wrote: (on FaceBook post July 2019) “Just imagine, we had an Institute of Industrial Design way back in ’57. We were way ahead of the rest of Asia, especially South East & North East Asia. Korea had just come out of the war. Vietnam was enmeshed in it and will remain so. China was one huge village with manual cooperative farming. Singapore was a backwater. Thailand was a fleshpot. And look where we are now. The others have leap frogged over us
At Dow Medical College, Karachi.