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Pakistani rupee exchanged at unfair rate: Ghazni residents

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GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): After local administration enforced transactions in Afghan currency in local markets, a number of residents of southern Ghazni province have complained moneychangers misused people’s urgency and exchanged Pakistani rupees at low rate.

The campaign for promoting Afghani-only transactions has been launched in many provinces and Ghazni officials also last week announced that they would not allow transactions in Pakistani rupees.

Bashir Ahmad, a resident of Ghazni city, the provincial capital, told Pajhwok Afghan News that shopkeepers no longer sold their goods in Pakistani rupees.

“I visited a shop . . .

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