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Following timber ban, 3,000 Kunar carpenters go jobless

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ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Thousands of artisans and carpenters in eastern Kunar province on Tuesday asked the government to provide work opportunities for them or lift the ban on timber movement..

Recently, the government banned the transportation of wooden furniture from Kunar to other provinces of the country, leaving many carpenters jobless.

Qari Mohammadullah, who owns a furniture factory, told Pajhwok Afghan News thousands of people working in carpentry shops had gone unemployed.

He asked the government to allow the transfer . . .

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