{"id":258693,"date":"2025-11-03T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258693\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:36:08","slug":"pakistan-inflation-rises-as-floods-border-tensions-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258693\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Inflation Rises as Floods, Border Tensions Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pakistan\u2019s inflation quickened last month as food prices jumped, driven by supply disruptions stemming from severe floods and the closure of the Afghan border amid heightened tensions between the two neighbors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Consumer price index rose 6.2% in October from a year earlier, according to data by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Monday. That\u2019s higher than the median estimate of 5.5% in a Bloomberg survey. Inflation had accelerated to 5.61% in September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s inflation quickened last month as food prices jumped, driven by supply disruptions stemming from severe floods and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[11213,5806,45,49,48,94,46,27755,2998,893,135,890,100,9380,2100],"class_list":["post-258693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-afghanistan","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-consumer-price-index","tag-economy","tag-emerging-markets","tag-food","tag-government","tag-inflation","tag-lifestyle","tag-markets","tag-pakistan","tag-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}