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[The Oriental Rug Blog] The path for the rug renaissance in Pakistan was paved by Afghanistan’s tragic civil war and the subsequent flood of Afghan refugees into neighboring Pakistan. More than a million Afghans sought refuge there, and hundreds of thousands still live in refugee camps in Peshawar and elsewhere near the Afghan-Pakistan border.
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