Flour, cooking oil down, fuel, gas up in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): Prices of flour and cooking oil went down, but gold, fuel and liquefied gas rates 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 Kazakh flour bag fell from 1,400afs to 1,350afs and a 16-liter tin of Malaysian cooling oil from 1,850afs to 1,800afs.

The price of a 49-kilogram sack of Indian sugar stayed stable at 2,550afs, a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice 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 1,400afs, 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 1,850afs, 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 the price of one litre of petrol increased from 61afs to 63afs and rate of diesel from 60afs to 61afs.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Koloa Pushta neighborhood, said the price of a kilogram of the commodity rose from 50afs to 54afs.

Gold prices

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold went up from 5,500afs to 5,600afs and the same amount of the Russian variety from 4,400afs to 4,450afs.

Haji Mohammad Hussain, owner of Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar traded at 73.30afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees at 260 afs --compared to their previous week’s 73.70 afs, and 260 afs.

Haji Hussain, referring to the increase in the value of the afghani against the US dollar, said the central bank had increased dollar auctions.

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