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Weekly SPI inflation up 0.21pc

Pakistan Published 3 October 2026, 06:51 · archived 3 Oct 2026

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index-based inflation for the week ended on October 1 recorded an increase of 0.21 percent owing to a hike in the prices of chicken by 7.25 percent, garlic by 1.85 percent, pulse gram by 1.30 percent, and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) by 1.17 percent. The SPI data released here on Friday by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed that the prices of other items that witnessed an increase included eggs, 0.72 percent; rice IRRI-6/9, 0.55 percent; onions, 0.39 percent; washing soap, 0.33 percent; wheat flour, 0.29 percent; and cloth and lawn printed, 0.19 perc...

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