Islamabad :
On the one hand, the federal government is announcing measures to control inflation, but despite this, inflation continues to rise across the country. This week, 17 items became more expensive, including sugar, flour and poultry. Inflation also rose 0.67 percent in recent weeks.
According to the statistics released by the Bureau of Statistics, the inflation rate has also increased by 0.67% in the last week. According to the data, sugar, flour, poultry, garlic, beef, mutton, coking Prices of 17 items, including oil and ghee, rose.
According to the statistics agency, the price of live chicken increased by Rs 23.18 per kg, making the average price of chicken at Rs 199.20 per kg and sugar at Rs 1.76 per kg, making the average price of sugar 107. The rupee has reached 41 paise.
According to the report, a 20 kg bag of flour went up by Rs 27.14 paise to Rs 1,164.22 paise this week, lentils at Rs 7.22 paise, ghee at Rs 3.18 paise per kg, onion at Rs 3.18 paise and garlic. 13 rupees 81 paise per kg became more expensive while eggs became more expensive by 5 rupees 15 paise per dozen.
According to statistics, eight essential items including tomatoes became cheaper by 89 paise per kg, bananas by Rs 4 62 paise per dozen, lentils by Rs 2 63 paise and potatoes by 28 paise per kg this week. The overall weekly inflation rate was recorded at 12.53%.
