Islamabad, Sep 27: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reports that for the week ending September 26, 2024, the inflation rate based on the Sensitive Price Index (SPI) climbed by 0.05 percent. Sixteen (31.37 percent) of the 51 items had price increases over the week, nine (17.65 percent) had price decreases, and 26 (50.98 percent) had unchanged prices.
Tomatoes (5.78 percent), onions (5.49 percent), pulse gram (1.01 percent), potatoes (0.94 percent), gur (0.82 percent), firewood whole 40 kg (0.64 percent), cooked daal (0.47 percent), curd (0.32 percent), milk fresh (0.26 percent), chicken (0.25 percent), beef with bone (0.24 percent), LPG (0.15 percent), rice irri-6/9 (0.14 percent), rice basmati broken (0.11 percent), and vegetable ghee dalda/habib 2.5 kg tin each (0.07 percent) are among the items whose prices increased during the period under review.
The increase in gas prices for Q1 (570 percent), pulse gram (60.21 percent), onions (51.72 percent), tomatoes (34.34 percent), beef (25.61 percent), powdered milk (25.41 percent), shirting (20.17 percent), chicken (17.07 percent), cooked daal (15.97 percent), salt powder (15.38 percent), georgette (13.78 percent), and energy saver (12.87 percent) is the primary cause of the year-over-year trend, which shows an increase of 12.80 percent.
