Sugar, diesel & gold prices down in Kabul markets

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of Indian sugar, diesel and gold decreased, but that rate of Malaysian cooking oil and petrol surged during the outgoing week 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 Indian sugar dropped from 2,400afs to 2,350afs, but the rate of a 16-litre cooking oil went up from 1,650afs to 1,750afs.

And a 24-kilogarm bag of Pakistani rice remained unchanged at 2,600afs, a 49-kilogram Kazakh flour at 1,460afs, a kilogram of African black tea at 400afs and the same amount of Indonesian green tea at 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 1,510afs, a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice at 2,650afs and a 49-kg sack of Indian sugar at 2,400afs.

A 16-litre bottle of cooking oil accounted for 1,800afs, one kilogram of black tea for 400afs and the same quantity of green tea for 450afs, he added.

Fuel prices up

A worker at the Ahmadyar pump station told Pajhwok said the price of one litre of petrol increased from 59afs to 60afs, but the rate of diesel declined from 61afs to 59afs.

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

Gold prices down

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweler in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold went down from 4,800afs to 4,550afs and the same amount of the Russian variety from 3,800afs to 3,650afs.

Haji Hussain, owner of Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar was traded at 68afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees consumed 240afs, the same rates as last week’s.

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