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A casket-maker distressed by his soaring income

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KABUL (Pajhwok): A coffin seller in Kabul says his income has risen as result of growing demand for funerary boxes for victims of suicide attacks and explosions in the city, but he never feels happy.

Abdul Shakoor, 60, inherited the casket-making job from his father. “I was a very small kid, but I don’t know what my age was when my father made coffins. I would curiously watch his work.”

He would often pester his father with innocent queries about the use of the . . .

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