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Slow trading at Pakistan’s oldest date market as high prices bite

  • Traders say freight cost, general sales tax, custom duty and labor costs have increased prices by 70 percent 
  • People fearing more price hikes started buying dates before the start of the Islamic fasting month
By KHURSHID AHMED    ·

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