ISLAMABAD: Weekly inflation declined by 0.46 per cent during the week ended November 12, 2026, mainly due to a significant reduction in petroleum prices, official data showed on Friday.
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) for the combined consumption group fell to 372.90 points from 374.61 points recorded in the preceding week.
However, on a year-on-year basis, weekly inflation increased by 11.21 per cent.
The SPI for the lowest consumption group, with a monthly income of up to Rs17,732, increased by 0.03 per cent to 361.12 points from 361.00 points in the previous week.
Meanwhile, the SPI for consumption groups with monthly incomes ranging from Rs17,733 to Rs22,888, Rs22,889 to Rs29,517, Rs29,518 to Rs44,175, and above Rs44,175 declined by 0.09 per cent, 0.17 per cent, 0.32 per cent and 0.68 per cent, respectively.
During the week under review, prices of 19 out of 51 monitored items, accounting for 37.25 per cent, increased, while nine items (17.65 per cent) registered a decline. Prices of the remaining 23 items (45.10 per cent) remained unchanged.
On a week-on-week basis, petrol prices recorded the largest decline of 7.42 per cent, followed by diesel, which became cheaper by 6.10 per cent.
Other items that registered price decreases included onions (1.70 per cent), bananas (1.03 per cent), gur (0.59 per cent), sugar (0.43 per cent), powdered milk (0.36 per cent), pulse moong (0.32 per cent) and pulse gram (0.08 per cent).
Conversely, tomatoes recorded the highest weekly price increase of 12.06 per cent, followed by eggs (5.98 per cent), potatoes (2.42 per cent), garlic (1.76 per cent), chicken (1.32 per cent), firewood (1.10 per cent), wheat flour (0.94 per cent), pulse masoor (0.64 per cent), beef (0.47 per cent) and LPG (0.30 per cent).
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On a year-on-year basis, LPG recorded the highest increase of 111.35 per cent, followed by tomatoes at 78.94 per cent and electricity charges for the first quarter at 52.38 per cent.
Other major increases were recorded in wheat flour (36.14 per cent), diesel (30.77 per cent), petrol (26.23 per cent), onions (19.67 per cent), powdered chillies (15.55 per cent), mutton (14.67 per cent), plain bread (12.35 per cent), beef (11.30 per cent) and chicken (10.98 per cent).
Meanwhile, potatoes registered the largest year-on-year price decline of 36.41 per cent, followed by sugar (24.54 per cent), eggs (23.29 per cent), powdered salt (12.51 per cent), pulse masoor (7.21 per cent), pulse moong (6.83 per cent), gur (6.63 per cent) and bananas (3.35 per cent).
