Barter system

A currency broker stands near his booth, which is decorated with pictures of currency notes, while dealing with customers, along a road in Karachi, Pakistan on 27 January 2023. File Photo: Reuters/Akhtar Soomro
Global Economy

Pakistan outlines process for barter trade with Afghanistan, Iran, Russia

A man fills up a basket with dried fish at a dried fish processing plant in Lalpur village under Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria. The village has been producing dried fish from various indeginous species for hundreds of years, but the output has decreased this season because of a scarcity of fishes and cash crunch. Photo: Azizul Shonchay.
Bazaar

Barter system ends at Brahmanbaria's centuries-old dried fish fair