The right to priority is an indispensable right granted by the Paris Convention (Convention) which allows the owner of an industrial design application in one Convention country (first country of origin priority application) to secure the same filing date for subsequent applications for the same design, filed within six months, in other Convention countries. This article seeks to analyze the crucial question as to whether a right of priority exists in Pakistan in an application for industrial design, in cases where the first country of origin priority application is not a national application of a Convention country but an international application under the Hague Agreement, to which Pakistan has not ratified. In simpler terms, it needs to be clarified whether a Hague design application is treated as a Convention country's 'national' application for the purposes of securing priority rights in Convention countries. To answer this rather challenging question, this article attempts to decipher the relevant provisions of the Convention, in particular Article 4(A)(2), and the intentions behind its formulation. For a successful priority claim in such circumstances, it is imperative to establish that the first application under the Hague Agreement is treated as a 'regular national filing': (a) under domestic law of the Convention country; or (b) under the Hague Agreement. The governing acts of the Hague Agreement, namely, Hague Act 1960 and the Geneva Act 1999 of the Hague Agreement concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs, expressly provide that Hague applications are treated with the same degree of protection as accorded to national applications. Moreover, all countries that are party to the Hague Agreement are also members of the Convention. Hence, a Hague application is equivalent to a regular national filing of a Convention country for the purposes of Paris Convention. Therefore, a claim of priority in industrial design applications on the basis of a Hague application is completely valid in Pakistan and must be accepted by the IPO without objection.