Kandhkot - As winter has set in, locals have thronged markets, mainly lunda bazaar to purchase used imported warm clothes. Particularly those who can't afford to buy expensive clothes from Bonanza, Oxford, Hang Ten and other brands’ outlets, lunda bazaars are the obvious choice. Here they can purchase a wide-range of warm clothes such as sweaters, jackets, blankets, mufflers, gloves and others for themselves as well as for their kids at affordable rates.
People of various communities, particularly Pathans, set up their temporary stalls at various markets and on roadsides. When this scribe approached the vendors selling winter clothes, they told that they had been into this business since childhood as this was the business of their ancestors.
Akmal Khan, a stall owner, said that items, especially jackets, blankets and sweaters, gloves and others were imported from foreign countries mainly USA, Dubai, Thailand and Cambodia, while another vendor, Imran Khan, said that the people of middle class also preferred to buy used items as these were much cheaper than new ones.
Due to rise in demand, the number of imported warm clothes and other items in local bazaars, especially in lunda bazaar is increasing day by day. Malik Abdul Ghafoor, a buyer, told this scribe excitedly that he always purchased these items from here as these were affordable. He explained that the jacket he had bought just now had cost him only 200 rupees, while the same was available elsewhere at exorbitant rates; ranging from Rs1,800 to Rs2,500.