ISLAMABAD
\nThe weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), recorded increase of 0.24 percent for the combined consumption group during the week ended on December 18, 2025, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday.
\nAccording to the PBS data, the SPI for the week under review was recorded at 336.53 points, up from 335.73 points last week. On a year-on-year basis, the SPI increased by 3.75 percent.
\nThe weekly SPI with base year 2015-16 = 100 covers 17 urban centres and 51 essential items for all expenditure groups.
\nThe SPI for the lowest consumption group (up to Rs17,732) increased by 0.07 percent, to 327.07 points from 326.84 points.
\nThe SPI for consumption groups of Rs17,733\u201322,888; Rs22,889\u201329,517; Rs29,518\u201344,175; and above Rs44,175 increased by 0.14 percent, 0.18 percent, 0.24 percent and 0.28 percent, respectively.
\nDuring the week, out of 51 items, prices of 17 (33.33 percent) items increased, 14 (27.45 percent) items decreased, and 20 (39.22 percent) items remained stable.
\nMajor commodities registering a week-on-week decrease included tomatoes (11.38 percent), potatoes (8.39 percent), diesel (5.00 percent), sugar (4.52 percent), onions (3.52 percent), pulse mash (1.29 percent), garlic (1.26 percent), salt powder (1.12 percent), gur (1.05 percent) and LPG (0.14 percent).
\nItems showing an increase in prices included chicken (11.11 percent), chilies powder (3.08 percent), eggs (2.88 percent), shirting (1.64 percent), firewood (0.86 percent), cooking oil 5 litre (0.32 percent), energy saver (0.31 percent), pulse moong (0.31 percent), mustard oil (0.25 percent) and beef (0.23 percent).
\nOn a year-on-year basis, major increases were observed in the prices of gas charges for Q1 (29.85 percent), sugar (24.10 percent), wheat flour (22.52 percent), chicken (20.78 percent), beef (13.66 percent), gur (13.43 percent), firewood (12.08 percent), powdered milk (9.50 percent), eggs (8.75 percent), lawn printed (8.29 percent), shirting (8.07 percent) and bananas (7.83 percent).
\nCommodities witnessing year-on-year decline included tomatoes (66.49 percent), potatoes (45.31 percent), garlic (39.10 percent), onions (29.77 percent), pulse gram (28.95 percent), tea Lipton (17.79 percent), pulse mash (14.23 percent), electricity charges for Q1 (8.40 percent), salt powder (6.14 percent) and LPG (0.15 percent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD The weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), recorded increase of 0.24 percent for the combined consumption group during the week ended on December 18, 2025, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday. According to the PBS data, the SPI for the week under review was recorded at 336.53 points, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-521025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"\n