Short-term inflation in Pakistan rose to 12.80 percent annually during the week ending September 26, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. This increase is a slight uptick of 0.05 percent after a week of decline.
The surge in weekly inflation primarily resulted from rising prices of perishable goods, including tomatoes, onions, and pulses. Conversely, prices for diesel and petrol saw a decline.
While petroleum product prices have decreased slightly over the past four weeks, the impact of these reductions has been overshadowed by the sharp increase in vegetable prices.
Among the commodities that experienced significant price hikes on a year-on-year basis are:
- Gas Charges: Increased by 570%
- Gram Dal: Up by 60.21%
- Onion: Rose by 51.72%
- Tomato: Climbed by 34.34%
- Beef: Increased by 25.61%
- Dry Milk: Up by 25.41%
- Shirting: Rose by 20.17%
- Chicken Meat: Increased by 17.07%
- Cooked Beans: Climbed by 15.97%
- Salt: Rose by 15.38%
- Energy Saver: Increased by 12.87%
In contrast, several essential items saw price declines, including:
- Wheat Flour: Decreased by 38.12%
- Petrol: Down by 24.73%
- Diesel: Fell by 24.06%
- Ground Pepper: Decreased by 20%
- Electricity Charges: Down by 13.47%
- Sugar: Fell by 11.18%
- Edible Oil (5 liters): Decreased by 10.87%
- Basmati Rice (Broken): Down by 9.86%
- Lentils: Fell by 9.22%
- Vegetable Ghee (2.5 kg): Decreased by 6.37%
- Jaggery: Fell by 6.19%
- LPG: Decreased by 1.91%
