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Shops Reopen Two Months After Kabul Deadly Blast

Shops have been re-opened and their business is improving following a massive explosion in a highly protected diplomatic area in the downtown Kabul almost two months ago which left more than 150 people dead and hundreds others wounded. 

The blast site, Zanbaq Square, was named Shaheed Mohammad Salem Ezedyar and Jawza Martyrs of Kabul City Square at a ceremony on Wednesday.

Ezedyar, son of the first deputy of the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament), lost his life after a peaceful demonstration turned violent a day after the deadly blast in the diplomatic region.

The explosion left enormous financial losses to businessmen.
 
However, a number of local businessmen said the explosion damaged at least 90 percent of their assets but added that they have received no assistant by government so far. 
 
“Businesses in Zanbaq Square massively damaged after the explosion. It seems that (at least) 90 percent of businesses have been affected. For instance, in the past, we were selling ten dresses a day, but now we hardly sell one dress per day,” said Qadeer Ahmad, a tailor.
 
According to Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI), the government has planned to provide loans to the affected businessmen once the assigned commission finalizes its report on the assessment of financial losses of the bombing. 
 
“Government has been clear about tax exemption. Also, government will provide loans to the private sector with lower interest,” the ACCI spokesman Seyam Pesarlai said.

Based on the ACCI statistics, businesses such as shopping malls, tourism companies, restaurants, banks and hotels suffered major financial losses in the explosion in May.

Shops Reopen Two Months After Kabul Deadly Blast

Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries said government has planned to provide loans with lower interest to the businessmen affected by the blast.

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Shops have been re-opened and their business is improving following a massive explosion in a highly protected diplomatic area in the downtown Kabul almost two months ago which left more than 150 people dead and hundreds others wounded. 

The blast site, Zanbaq Square, was named Shaheed Mohammad Salem Ezedyar and Jawza Martyrs of Kabul City Square at a ceremony on Wednesday.

Ezedyar, son of the first deputy of the Meshrano Jirga (Upper House of Parliament), lost his life after a peaceful demonstration turned violent a day after the deadly blast in the diplomatic region.

The explosion left enormous financial losses to businessmen.
 
However, a number of local businessmen said the explosion damaged at least 90 percent of their assets but added that they have received no assistant by government so far. 
 
“Businesses in Zanbaq Square massively damaged after the explosion. It seems that (at least) 90 percent of businesses have been affected. For instance, in the past, we were selling ten dresses a day, but now we hardly sell one dress per day,” said Qadeer Ahmad, a tailor.
 
According to Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI), the government has planned to provide loans to the affected businessmen once the assigned commission finalizes its report on the assessment of financial losses of the bombing. 
 
“Government has been clear about tax exemption. Also, government will provide loans to the private sector with lower interest,” the ACCI spokesman Seyam Pesarlai said.

Based on the ACCI statistics, businesses such as shopping malls, tourism companies, restaurants, banks and hotels suffered major financial losses in the explosion in May.

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