ISLAMABAD: <\/p>\n
The weekly inflation measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) registered an increase of 0.07% for the combined consumption group during the week ended November 20, 2025, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reported on Friday.<\/p>\n
The SPI reading for the week reached 335.54 points, up from 335.31 in the previous week. On a year-on-year basis, the SPI rose 3.53%.<\/p>\n
The weekly SPI covers 17 urban centres and 51 essential items for all expenditure groups. For the lowest consumption group up to Rs17,732 per month, the index increased 0.07%, rising to 329.13 points from 328.89 last week.<\/p>\n
The inflation index for consumption groups including Rs17,733-22,888, Rs22,889-29,517, Rs29,518-44,175 and above Rs44,175 rose 0.07%, 0.04%, 0.03% and 0.09% respectively.<\/p>\n
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 16 (31.37%) items increased, 13 (25.49%) items decreased and 22 (43.14%) items remained unchanged.<\/p>\n
Major commodities registering a week-on-week increase included tomatoes (57.03%), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG, 5.16%), garlic (2.61%), sugar (2.23%), diesel (2.17%), georgette (0.80%), bananas (0.72%), prepared tea (0.59%), firewood (0.26%), 1kg vegetable ghee (0.21%), beef (0.17%) and mustard oil (0.13%).<\/p>\n
The commodities showing a decline in prices were onions (-12.38%), chicken (-8.07%), potatoes (-5.69%), powdered salt (-1.67%), pulse moong (-1.62%), wheat flour (-1.41%), pulse gram (-0.81%) and eggs (-0.48%).<\/p>\n
On a year-on-year basis, the major price increases were observed in sugar (43.77%), gas charges for Q1 (29.85%), wheat flour (17.31%), gur (16.35%), beef (13.45%), firewood (12.52%), bananas (11.81%), diesel (11.66%), 2.5kg vegetable ghee (9.04%), printed lawn (8.29%), powdered milk (8.17%) and five-litre cooking oil (7.75%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ISLAMABAD: The weekly inflation measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) registered an increase of 0.07% for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,9041],"class_list":{"0":"post-301203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-latest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301203","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=301203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}