The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI)-based weekly inflation for the combined consumption group decreased by 0.35 percent during the week ended on 29 October 2026.
The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reported that the SPI for the week under review fell to 373.51 points from the 374.84 points recorded in the previous week. On a year-on-year basis, the SPI increased by 11.32 percent. The weekly SPI, which uses a base year of 2015-16=100, covers 51 essential items across all expenditure groups in 17 urban centres.
For the lowest consumption group, which covers expenditures up to Rs 17,732, the SPI decreased by 0.07 percent to 357.92 points from 358.18 points. Out of the 51 items monitored, prices for 15 items, or 29.41 percent, saw an increase. Prices of 12 items, representing 23.53 percent of the list, decreased during the same period.
The prices of 24 items, accounting for 47.06 percent of the total, remained unchanged. Electricity charges for Q1 saw a week-on-week reduction of 3.92 percent. Chicken prices fell by 2.95 percent, while eggs decreased by 2.81 percent on a week-on-week basis.
Wheat flour prices dropped by 0.83 percent, and LPG costs decreased by 0.73 percent. Bananas saw a price reduction of 0.71 percent, while rice IRRI-6/9 and pulse masoor both decreased by 0.43 percent. Petrol prices fell by 0.39 percent, and sugar costs decreased by 0.35 percent.
Powdered milk prices declined by 0.33 percent. Tomatoes experienced a sharp week-on-week price hike of 34.91 percent. Potatoes increased by 3.27 percent, while diesel prices rose by 2.53 percent.
Pulse gram prices rose by 2.11 percent, and plain bread increased by 1.29 percent. Onions saw a price increase of 0.62 percent, while fresh milk rose by 0.48 percent. Curd prices increased by 0.46 percent, and vegetable ghee 2.5kg rose by 0.29 percent.
