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This market, beside the railroad tracks in Peshawar, is selling metallic streamers that look like Christmas tree tinsle but are in-fact for decorating the graves of recently deceased.
This market, beside the railroad tracks in Peshawar, is selling metallic streamers that look like Christmas tree tinsle but are in-fact for decorating the graves of recently deceased (I suppose flowers are too few & shrivel too fast in the blazing sun...?). The same stall sells garlands of decoratively arranged small notes (typically, 20 rupee bills) which are placed around the necks of the recently returned, the bridegroom at a wedding or a man celebrating the
opening of a new business & suchlike.


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