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Weekly SPI inflation down 0.04pc

Pakistan Published 17 October 2026, 04:52 · archived 17 Oct 2026

ISLAMABAD: The Sensitive Price Index-based inflation for the week ended on October 16, 2026 recorded a slight reduction of 0.04 percent owing to a reduction in the prices of tomatoes that fell by 23.05percent, onions by 4.90percent, and bananas by 2.59percent. The SPI data released here on Friday by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistic (PBS) showed that the prices of other items which witnessed a reduction included petrol that declined by 0.70percent, rice basmati broken by 0.65percent, sugar by 0.62percent, and gur by 0.36percent. According to PBS data during the week under review, the prices of ...

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