Prices of fuel, flour, sugar down in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of fuel, flour, sugar and cooking oil decreased in Kabul market during the outgoing week, market sources said on Saturday.

Fuel prices

A worker at the Ahmadyar pump station told Pajhwok Afghan News the rate of one litre of petrol decreased from 64afs to 60afs and the diesel price went down from 67afs to 62afs.

Meanwhile, Mohammad Jan, a shopkeeper at Dahan-i-Bagh area said price of one kilogram of liquefied gas dipped from 50afs to 47afs.

Food items

Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the price of a 49-kg sack of Kazakh decreased from 1,450afs to 1,400afs, a 16-litre bottle of Malaysian cooking fell from 1,700afs to 1,650afs and a 49-kilogram bag of Indian sugar surged from 2,550afs to 2,500.

The price of a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice remained unchanged at 2,600afs, the same rate as last week’s.

He added one kilogram of African black tea accounted for 400afs and the same amount of Indonesian green tea for 350afs.

Hamid Sufizada, a retailer at Dahna-i-Bagh market, put the retail price of a 49-kg bag of flour at 1,450afs, a 24-kg bag of rice at 2,650afs and a 49-kg sack of sugar at 2,550afs.

A 16-litre bottle of cooking oil cost 1,700afs, he said, adding one kilogram of black tea accounted for 400afs and the same quantity of green tea for 450afs.

Gold

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Russian gold remained stable 4,700afs and the same amount of Arabian gold stayed unchanged at 6,000afs.

Afghani vs dollar

Haji Mohammad Hussain, owner of the Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar was traded at 69.10afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees at 235afs against their previous week’s rates of 69.30afs and 235afs.

The spike in the afghani value is essentially linked to periodic dollar auctions by the central bank.

hz/sa