Flour, gold prices fall in Kabul markets

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of Kazakh flour and gold declined, but the rates of other items stayed stable 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 Kazakh flour sack decreased from 1,450afs to 1,400afs.

The rate of a 16-litre cooking oil bottle, however, remained unchanged at 1,800afs, of a 49-kilogram sack of Indian sugar at 2,500afs with a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice staying unchanged at 2,600afs, a kilogram of African black tea at 400afs and the same amount of Indonesian green tea at 350afs.

Hamid Sufizada, a retailer at Dahna-i-Bagh Market, put the retail price of a 49-kilogram bag of Kazakh flour at 1,450afs, 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 1,850afs, 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 the price of one litre of petrol stayed stable at 61afs and the rate of diesel at 59afs.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Kolola Pushta neighborhood, sold a kilogram of the commodity for 54afs.

Gold prices down

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold went down from 4,900afs to 4,850afs and the same amount of the Russian variety from 3,900afs to 3,850afs.

Haji Hussain, owner of Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar was traded at 70.30afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees accounted for 250afs.

Last week, one US dollar accounted for 70afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 250afs.

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