Kabul’s carpet and antique dealers struggle after foreigners flee
By AFP
10 October 2021 |
5:46 pm
Traders of carpets, antiques and souvenirs on Kabul's famed Chicken Street say business has completely dried up since the vast majority of foreigners left the Afghan capital as the Taliban took over.
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