Sugar, rice prices down in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): Indian sugar and Pakistani rice prices fell and that of food items stayed unchanged during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Saturday.

Food items

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the rate 24-kilogram bag of Pakistani rice decreased from 2,650afs to 2,600afs and of a 49-kilogram bag of Indian sugar from 2,950afs to 2,900.

But the price of 49-kilogram sack of Kazakhstani flour cost 1,550afs, a 16-litre bottle of cooking oil stayed stable at 1,450afs, a kilogram of African black tea was sold for 400afs and the same amount of Indonesian green tea for 350afs, the same rates as last week’s.

Hamid Sufizada, a retailer at Dahna-i-Bagh Market, put the retail price of a 49-kilogram bag of Kazakh flour at 1,600afs, a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice at 2,650afs and a 49-kg sack of Indian sugar at 2,950afs.

A 16-litre bottle of cooking oil accounted for 1,500afs, one kilogram of black tea for 400afs and the same quantity of green tea for 450afs, he added.

Fuel prices

A worker at the Ahmadyar pump station told Pajhwok Afghan News one litre of petrol cost 63af and the price of diesel at 61afs, same as last week.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Kolola Pushta neighborhood, said the price of a kilogram of the commodity remained unchanged 54afs.

Gold prices

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweler in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold stayed stable at 4,400afs and the same amount of the Russian variety at 3,400afs.

Afghani vs dollar

Haji Hussain, owner of the Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar traded at 72.30afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees consumed 255afs.

Last week, one US dollar was accounted for 72.20afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 255afs.

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