Capital markets wore festive look as virus lockdown eased.

ISLAMABAD -- As the lockdown was eased , a number of people thronged the nearby shops and markets for Eid shopping with massive traffic jams on the roads of capital city where Mehdi, shoes and clothing industries were getting huge orders to fulfil the needs of shopkeepers.

The sale of variety of shoes,garments, bangles, jewellery and Mehdi has increased manifolds in the capital markets where great of rush of buyers were witnessed ahead of Eidul Fitr celebrations soon after ease in the lockdown by the authorities.

Market vendors and industry workers while talking to reporter have expressed happiness and welcomed the resumption of business that would facilitate economic revival and ensure livelihoods of many people.

They also expressed satisfaction over the sale of the Eid clothes, shoes, cosmetics and other goods and hoped that the sales would continue till the night before the Eid-ul-Fitr day.

Braving the heat, hawkers also doing brisk sale of clothes, footwear, imitation ornaments and cosmetics and other goods as these products are generally purchased by low-income people ahead of Eid, said a vendor Amjad Zohaib.

'We were facing huge rush of shoppers where...