Flour, sugar prices up in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): Prices of flour and sugar surged while the rates of other essential items remained unchanged during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Saturday.

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the price of a 49-kilogram Kazakh flour bag went up from 1,350afs to 1,370afs and a 49-kg sack of Indian sugar surged from 2,550afs to 2,680afs.

The price of a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice stayed stable at 2,600afs, a 16-litre tin of Malaysian cooking oil at 1,800afs, 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-kg bag of Kazakh flour at 1,420afs, a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice at 2,650afs and a 49-kg sack of Indian sugar at 2,730afs.

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 unchanged

A worker at the Ahmadyar pump station told Pajhwok the price of one litre of petrol stayed stable at 63afs and diesel at 61afs.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Koloa Pushta neighborhood, said the price of a kilogram of the commodity was 54afs -- same as last week.

Gold prices

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller in Timor Shahi area, put the price of one gram of Arabian gold at 5,600afs and the same amount of the Russian variety at 4,450afs.

Haji Mohammad Hussain, owner of Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar traded at 74.20afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees at 260 afs –compared to previous week’s rates of 73.30 afs, and 260 afs.

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