Flour, cooking oil down, sugar up in Kabul

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of Kazakh flour and Malaysian cooking oil decreased, but the rate of Indian sugar 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 sack of Indian sugar went up from 2,350afs to 2,400afs. The rate of a 16-litre cooking oil bottle, however, dropped from 1,750afs to 1,700afs.

The value of a 49-kilogram Kazakh flour sack declined from 1,460afs to 1,450afs, with a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice staying unchanged 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 1,500afs, a 24-kg bag of Pakistani rice at 2,650afs and a 49-kg sack of Indian sugar at 2,4520afs.

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.

Gold prices up

Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller in Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gram of Arabian gold surged from 4,550afs to 4,850afs and the same amount of the Russian variety from 3,630afs to 3,850afs.

Fuel prices

A worker at the Ahmadyar pump station told Pajhwok the price of one litre of petrol stayed stable at 60afs and diesel at 59afs.

Mohammad Sharif, a liquefied gas seller in Kalola Pushta neighborhood, sold a kilogram of the commodity for 48afs.

Haji Hussain, owner of the Sadaqat Money Exchange Service, said one US dollar was traded at 68.10afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees accounted for 240afs.

Last week, one US dollar accounted for 68afs and 1,000 Pakistani rupees for 240afs.

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