Food items’ prices unchanged in Kabul markets

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices food items remained unchanged during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said Saturday.

Fuel prices

A worker at the Ahmadyar pump station told Pajhwok said the price of petrol stayed stable at 63afs a liter and diesel at 66afs.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Kolola Pushta neighborhood, said the price of a kilogram of the commodity sold for 50afs.

Food items

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the prices of a 49-kilogram sack of Indian sugar remained unchanged at 2,550afs and 49-kilogram sack of Kazakhstani flour at 1,580afs.

And a 16 liters tin of Malaysian cooking oil was sold for 1,450afs and a 24-kilogarm bag of Pakistani rice for 2,600afs, and a kilogram of African black tea for 400afs and the same amount of Indonesian green tea for 350afs, registering no change in their prices.

Hamid Sufizada, a retailer at Dehna-i-Bagh Market, put the retail price of a 49-kilogram bag of Kazakh flour at 1,630afs, a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice at 2,650afs and a 49-kg sack of Indian sugar at 2,600afs.

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.

Gold prices

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweler in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold stayed stable at 4,650afs and the same amount of the Russian variety at 3,650afs.

Afghani, dollar parity

Haji Hussain, owner of Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar was traded at 70.20afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees consumed 250afs.

Last week, one US dollar was accounted for 70.30afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 248afs.

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