In order to fulfill our mandate of promoting education in art and culture at higher level, and to revive collaboration with national and international educational institutions having similar goals, a new training institute in the name of National institute of cultural studies (NICS) is set up at Lok Virsa, Islamabad. The excellence of this institute is to expose our young generation to different genres of traditional arts of Pakistan thus enabling them to enhance their knowledge, observation, imagination, and technical skills about crafts.