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Pharmacists protest govt move to monopolize medicine sector

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JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Pharmacists in eastern Nangarhar province have stopped functioning in protest against a possible government move to authorize a few companies to continue medicine business.

They said around 400,000 people nation-wide would lose their jobs if the government took such a decision and medicine business would be monopolized which was against the international trade law.

But the Afghanistan Food authority said the government has not taken any such decision.

Dr. Najibullah Sahibzada, head of the Medicine Businessmen Union in the east, while addressing a protest gathering said the move was against international trade and business law.

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