As you drive through Peshawar you pass clusters of colourful shops where all stripes of sehras (headgear for bridegrooms) hang from the ceiling.
Illahuddin Qureshi has been selling sehras for the past 40 years. He has seen the business
expand hundredfold. These sehras, adorned with rupee bills ranging from one to a hundred, are a must at Peshawari weddings, especially in the tribal areas of Banu, a few kilometres from
Peshawar.
The designs range from the exquisite to the bizarre. Some have clocks on them while others have
faces of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
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