Former Afghan president goes shopping at Silk Market

By Li Shen
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Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai walks through the Silk Market, accompanied by his entourage in Beijing on May 26, 2015. [Photo: CFP]


Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai visited the Silk Market to go shopping on Tuesday evening, the Legal Evening News reported.

Karzai arrived at the Silk Market, a famous shopping market in downtown Beijing, at 6:30 pm, and greeted staff in Chinese. He received a dragon-pattern tea set as a gift from Zhang Yongping, president of the Silk Street Market Group. Karzai spent 2,500 yuan (US$403) on a blue silk tie, six silk scarves and three woolen scarves later on during his trip,

Karzai was in Beijing for the first annual meeting of the Non-governmental Forum of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) which was held from May 25 to 26 in Beijing.

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