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KABUL (SW): Kabul is home to some 5 million inhabitants coming from various parts of the country to seek refuge and dream for brighter future.
Though, there are no accurate figures available on the number of street vendors, but a random visit of various parts of the city indicate thousands of people are engaged with various forms of trades on the streets in Kabul.
One of them is a middle-aged man named Abdul Razaq who sells ‘naswar’ a local type of moist, powdered tobacco snuff sold in small packs. Abdul Razaq informed Salam Watandar he has been selling naswar in the Kota Sangi area in Kabul for more than 15 years now. Hailing from the Parwan province, the street vendor said his working day begins at around 06:00 in the morning till 20:00 in the night.
He informed about the hard labor he puts in preparing finest quality of naswar with main ingredients from his hometown Parwan. I earn up to AFN 15,000 a month, he said while informing about the home he has bought for himself in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood with this income.
He complained police forces are not allowing the street vendors to freely work. This comes as a World Bank report has noted that some 39 per cent of population in Afghanistan is living below the poverty line, and some 1.3 million Afghans do not have access to the basic needs of life.
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