Afghani up, fuel & gold down in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): Cooking oil, flour and liquefied gas prices went up while the rates of gold, petrol and diesel declined during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Sunday.

Haji Mohammad Hussain, owner of the Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said the local currency edged up during the week when one US dollar traded at 71.20afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees at 255afs.

During the previous week, one US dollar accounted for 73.30afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 260afs. The spike in the afghani value is essentially linked to periodic dollar auctions by the central bank.

Food items

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the price of a 49-kilogram sack of Kazakh flour surged from 1,370afs to 1,400afs and a 16-litre bottle of Malaysian cooking oil from 1,700afs to 1,800afs.

The price of a 49-kilogram bag of Indian sugar cost 2,500afs, 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 1,450afs, 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 fell from 63afs to 62afs and diesel from 61afs to 58afs.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Kalola Pushta locality, said the rate of one kilogram of the commodity went up from 54afs to 60afs.

Gold prices down

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold decreased from 5,500afs to 5,450afs and the same amount of the Russian variety decreased from 4,500afs to 4,350afs.

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