11.   The ground floors of village houses that once held goats and sheep were cleaned up and turned into restaurants and carpet shops.

12.   There are carpet shops everywhere in most Pakistani cities, and they love foreign customers.

13.   Its streets are lined with small stores, restaurants and carpet shops with their intricately woven red and black wares hanging in front.

14.   Two INLA members with automatic rifles cut down Protestant businessman Jim Guiney, an Ulster Defense Association member, inside his south Belfast carpet shop.

15.   Mohammed Yousef, the owner of a carpet shop, was more upbeat about the coming year.