Increase in inflation rate in the country, prices of 17 items increased further

The rate of inflation in the country increased further. Prices of 17 commodities increased further.

According to the Institute of Statistics, the inflation rate increased by 0.80 percent during a week, while the annual inflation rate has increased from 4.64 percent to 5.08 percent.

The Federal Bureau of Statistics said in its report yesterday that in the recent week, the prices of 17 items increased, the prices of 10 items decreased and the prices of 24 items remained stable.

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During the recent week, cooking oil prices increased by 0.74% while ghee prices increased by 0.91%, sugar by 2.19%, tomatoes by 20.75%, chicken by 22.47%, beef by 0.69%, mustard oil by 0.69%, LPG by 0.18% and kindling. Vali wood became expensive by 0.95%.

According to the official statistics, the prices of dal gram, dal mash 1.28 percent, onion 8.13 percent, potato 2.38 percent, egg 0.30 percent, banana 0.68 percent and broken rice decreased by 0.15 percent.