Karkhano Market, a few kilometres beyond Hayatabad on Jamrud road, merits mention in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. The market is exempt from taxes because of its proximity to Pakistan's tribal areas.

It sells everything from hairpins to anti-aircraft guns. Of course, after 9/11, the government has seized the rocket launchers, the Kalashnikovs and, as the local people call it, the asla barood (real stuff) that used to go cheap around here.

Not long ago Karkhano even had a Marks & Spencer store (affiliated in some manner apparently to the famous British chain).