ISLAMABAD: The weekly inflation, measured by Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), witnessed an increase of 0.27 pc to jump to 48.02pc on a year-on-year basis for the week ending on May 11, official data showed.
The short-term inflation rose by an all-time high of 48.35pc for the period that ended on May 4.
Out of the 51 monitored items, the average price of 23 items increased, 7 items decreased whereas 21 items registered no change during the week.
During the week under review, the items whose prices increased the most over the same week a year ago were: potatoes (112.80pc), gas charges for Q1 (108.38pc), tea Lipton (106.09pc), wheat flour (101.20pc), gents sponge chappal (100.33pc), diesel (99.39pc), bananas (98.22pc), rice basmati broken (90.76pc), eggs (89.40pc), petrol (87.81pc), rice irri-6/9 (83.47pc), pulse moong (66.91pc), bread (62.83pc) and pulse mash (58.79pc).
A decrease was observed in the prices of onions (9.40%), chicken (2.25%), LPG (1.51%), garlic (1.39%), bananas (0.68%), pulse gram (0.13%), and mustard oil (0.05%).
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