Afghan delivery men feel pressure as online sales rise


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  • Monday, 05 Feb 2018

In this photo taken on January 16, 2018 Afghan courier Sarajuddin talks on a phone with a customer as he tries to find an address on a motorbike on a street in Kabul. As Afghans embrace online shopping, harried delivery men in the capital are increasingly running the gauntlet of security checkpoints, gridlocked traffic, and potholed roads -- as well as the near-constant threat of blasts and attacks. / AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR / TO GO WITH Afghanistan-economy-technology-unrest,FOCUS by Usman Sharifi

KABUL: Afghan courier Sarajuddin stops his motorbike on a dirt road in the heart of war-torn Kabul and calls his customer for directions: “I am in the second street. Which way should I go now?” 

As Afghans embrace online shopping, harried delivery men in the capital are increasingly running the gauntlet of security checkpoints, gridlocked traffic, and potholed roads – as well as the near-constant threat of blasts and attacks. 

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