Sugar, cooking oil prices down in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of cooling oil and sugar decreased while the rate of Russian gold surged during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Sunday.

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 previous week’s rates of 74.20 afs, and 260 afs.

Food items

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the price of a 49-kilogram bag of Indian sugar fell from 2,680afs to 2,500afs and a 16-litre canof  Malaysian cooking oil from 1,800afs to 1,700afs.

The price of a 49-sack of kilogram Kazakh flour cost 1,370afs, a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice stayed stable 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-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 2,550afs.

A 16-litre bottle of cooking oil accounted for 1,750afs, 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.

Gold prices

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

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