Afghani strengthens, fuel, sugar, gold prices down

KABUL (Pajhwok): Prices of fuel, sugar and Russian gold went down as the afghani strengthened against the US dollar during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Saturday.

Haji Mohammad Hussain, owner of Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said that one US dollar traded for 73.85 afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 260 afs against their previous week’s 75.20 afs, and 260 afs.

Haji Hussain, referring to the increase in the value of the afghani against the US dollar, said that the Central Bank has increased dollar sales.

Fuel prices down

A worker at the Ahmadyar pump station told Pajhwok the price of one litre of petrol decreased from 65afs to 61afs and rate of diesel from 66afs to 60afs.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Koloa Pushta neighborhood, said the price of a kilogram of the commodity declined from 58afs 50afs.

Food items

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the price of a 49-kilogram sack of Indian sugar went down from 2,650afs to 2,550afs.

But the price of a 49-kilogram Kazakh flour stayed stable at 1,400afs, 16-liter tin of Malaysian cooling oil at 1,850afs.

A 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice remained 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 2,600afs.

A 16-litre bottle of cooking oil accounted for 1,900afs, one kilogram of black tea for 400afs and the same quantity of green tea for 450afs, he added.

Gold prices

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold stayed unchanged at 5,500afs, but the Russian variety increased from 4,350afs to 4,400afs.

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