KABUL: The price of fuel has increased in Kabul Afghanistan during the past week and local residents urge the government to step up to prevent excessive retrieval from the company and fuel importer.
Gas prices have increased by 15 AFS per kilo and gasoline prices have increased from four AFS in the past weekend, reporting tolonews.
Abdul Qayoum, a daily bet that lives in Kabul said, “Someone who has daily income, works on the road, how can you buy one kilo gas.
Price goes up.” Shop owners in Kabul claim that fuel import companies have climbed fuel prices because fuel prices have increased, reporting tolonews.
Abdul Hadi, who works as a taxi driver said that he sometimes pays more for gasoline.
“We bought 5 liters of oil at 320 AF, sometimes at 330 AF, this is not a good price.
The economic situation is not good now,” Abdul said.
Local residents have asked the government led by the Taliban to prevent refueling by stopping extortion by fuel import companies.
It was more than a month when the Taliban arrested Kabul after aggressive and rapid progress against Afghan government forces amid the withdrawal of US and NATO troops from the country.
The country fell into the crisis last month after Kabul fell to the Taliban and the government of former President Ashraf Ghani was elected democratically collapsed.