Cooking oil, gold, liquefied gas rates down in Kabul — Pajhwok

KABUL (Pajhwok): The prices of cooking oil, gold and liquefied gas declined in Kabul during the outgoing week, market sources said on Saturday. Zmarai Safi, head of the Food Traders’ Association, said the price of 16 litres of Malaysian cooking oil fell from 2,000afs to 1,950afs. He said prices of other essential food items remained unchanged, with a 49kg bag of Kazakh flour at 1,550afs, a 49kg bag of Indian sugar at 2,700afs, 24kg of Indian rice at 2,500afs, one kilogramme of African black tea at 380afs and one kilogramme of Indonesian green tea at 350afs. He attributed the decline in cooking oil prices to increased imports. He noted that retail prices differ slightly from wholesale prices in some cases, while the difference is more significant in others. Hamid Sufizada, a retailer at the Dahan-i-Bagh market, put the retail price of a 49kg bag of Kazakh flour at 1,600afs, a 24kg bag of Indian rice at 2,550afs and a 49kg bag of Indian sugar at 2,750afs. A 16-litre bottle of cooking oil sold for 2,000afs, while one kilogramme of black tea cost 430afs and the same quantity of green tea cost 400afs, he added. Mohammad Fawad, a jeweller in the Timor Shahi area, said the price of one gramme of Arabian gold fell from 7,480afs to 7,400afs, while the same…