The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) announced on Saturday that the weekly inflation rate has slightly decreased by 0.29 percent, though the annual inflation remains steady at 1.35 percent.
The recent data indicates mixed movements in food prices: 13 items saw price increases last week, 14 items experienced declines, and prices for 24 items remained unchanged.
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Notably, prices for chicken, onion, garlic, potatoes, and cooking oil dropped during the week, alongside reductions in rice, LPG, diesel, and firewood costs.
Conversely, prices for tomatoes, eggs, jaggery, lentils, moong, and wheat flour rose, with chana lentils, dry milk, energy savers, and bananas also becoming more expensive.
On an annual basis, some commodities recorded sharp price hikes: live broiler chicken prices increased by 45 percent, lentils and moong by 31 percent, dry milk by 24 percent, sugar by 22 percent, and eggs by 21.51 percent.
Other significant annual price rises were seen in gram dal (21 percent), beef (22 percent), and LPG (13 percent).
However, several items became more affordable over the year, including onions (down 55 percent), potatoes (30 percent), garlic (29 percent), tea (18 percent), wheat flour (17 percent), and dal mash (16 percent).
