The inflation has jumped to over 28 per cent in the last one year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said.
It said that inflations Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) eased 0.57 per cent on a week-on-week basis for the period ending Oct 13 due to a slight decline in energy prices.
According to data released by the PBS, on a year-on-year basis, the inflation posted an increase of 28.44pc driven by food and the highest-ever energy prices. The SPI posted four weekly declines since Sept 8, while it rose in two weeks.
The SPI for the current week ended on 13th October, 2022 recorded a decrease of 0.57%. Major decrease is observed in the prices of food items, tomatoes (13.51%), eggs (2.12%), pulse masoor (2.07%), onions (1.57%), pulse gram (1.39%) and bananas (1.36%), non-food item, LPG (2.76%).
On the other hand, an increase is observed in the prices of match box (5.65%), powdered milk (3.82%), firewood (2.09%), bread plain (2.05%), potatoes (1.78%), cooked beef (1.47%) and tea lipton (1.24%).
During the week, it said, out of 51 items, prices of 17 (33.34%) items decreased, 18 (35.29%) items increased and 16 (31.37%) items remained stable.
The year-on-year trend depicts an increase of 28.44%, tomatoes (194.26%), onions (167.89%), diesel (92.08%), petrol (76.07%), pulse gram (69.25%), pulse masoor (62.19%), cooking oil 5 litre (60.14%), washing soap (58.03%), mustard oil (56.53%), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (56.30%), pulse mash (55.61%), pulse moong (53.72%) and vegetable ghee 1 kg (53.59%), while decrease observed in the prices of electricity for Q1 (45.61%), chillies powder (42.08%), sugar (12.79%) and gur (3.59%).
