Flour, gold prices down in Kabul markets

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of Kazakh flour and gold decreased, but the rates of other items remained unchanged in Kabul, market sources said on Saturday.

Food items

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the price of a 49-kilogram sack of Kazakhstani flour decreased from 1,550afs to 1,500afs.

But a 49-kilogram Indian sugar stayed stable at 2,500afs and a 16-litre cooking oil at 1,430afs.

And a 24-kilogarm bag of Pakistani rice cost 2,600afs, a kilogram of African black tea 400afs and the same amount of Indonesian green tea 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 1,550afs, a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice at 2,650afs and a 49-kg sack of Indian sugar at 2,550afs.

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 said the price of petrol stayed unchanged at 61afs and diesel at 64afs.

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

Gold prices

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweler in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold went down from 4,850afs to 4,750afs and the same amount of the Russian variety from 3,850afs to 3,750afs.

Haji Hussain, owner of Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar was traded at 68.50afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees consumed 245afs, compared to their last week’s 68.80afs and 245afs respectively.

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