Sugar, gold prices down in Kabul market

KABUL (Pajhwok): Indian sugar and gold prices decreased, but essential items rates remained unchanged during the outgoing week in Kabul, market source said on Saturday.

Food items

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the rate 49-kilogram sack of Indian sugar decreased from 3,100afs to 3,000afs.

But the price of 49-kilogram sack of Kazakhstani flour stayed stable at 1,550afs, 24-kilogarm of Pakistani rice 2,600afs, 16 liters tin of Malaysian cooking oil 1,420afs, 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 3,050afs.

A 16-litre bottle of cooking oil accounted for 1,470afs, one kilogram of black tea for 400afs and the same quantity of green tea for 450afs, he added.

Gold prices down

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweler in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold dropped from 4,550afs to 4,350 and the same amount of the Russian variety from 3,550afs to 3,450afs.

Fuel prices

A worker at the Ahmadyar pump station told Pajhwok Afghan News one litre of petrol cost 62afs and the price of diesel 58afs.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Kolola Pushta neighborhood, said the price of a kilogram of the commodity 48afs.

Afghani vs dollar

Haji Hussain, owner of the Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar traded at 71.70afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees consumed 255afs.

Last week, one US dollar was accounted for 71.80afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 255afs.

hz/sa

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