The weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), increased by 0.22 percent for the combined consumption group during the week ended on October 23, 2025, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Thursday.
According to the PBS data, the SPI for the week under review was recorded at 335.14 points, up from 334.39 points last week. On a year-on-year basis, the SPI rose by 5.03 percent.
The weekly SPI with base year 2015-16=100 covers 17 urban centres and 51 essential items for all expenditure groups.
The SPI for the lowest consumption group (up to Rs 17,732) increased by 0.27 percent, rising to 330.27 points from 329.37 points.
The SPI for consumption groups of Rs 17,733-22,888; Rs 22,889-29,517; Rs 29,518-44,175; and above Rs44,175 increased by 0.26 percent, 0.23 percent, 0.24 percent, and 0.21 percent, respectively.
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 20 (39.22%) items increased, 06 (11.76%) items decreased and 25 (49.02%) items remained stable.
The major commodities that registered a week-on-week increase included onions (5.62%), energy saver (2.51%), eggs (2.38%), sugar (2.04%), firewood (1.17%), garlic (0.93%), bananas (0.80%), powdered milk (0.58%), beef (0.47%) and cooking oil 5-litre tin (0.36%).
Items showing a decline in prices included chicken (2.51%), rice IRRI-6/9 (1.19%), pulse moong (0.65%), LPG (0.12%), gur (0.08%) and wheat flour (0.01%).
On a year-on-year basis, the major increases were observed in the prices of tomatoes (120.94%), ladies sandal (55.62%), sugar (40.82%), gas charges for Q1 (29.85%), wheat flour (18.28%), gur (18.26%), beef (13.48%), vegetable ghee 2.5kg (12.46%), vegetable ghee 1kg (12.37%), firewood (12.68%), diesel (9.75%) and eggs (9.40%). Commodities witnessing a year-on-year decline included garlic (29.90%), pulse gram (28.23%), chicken (26.32%), electricity charges for Q1 (26.26%), onions (26.06%), potatoes (19.65%), tea (17.93%), pulse mash (16.58%), pulse masoor (3.66%) and LPG (3.54%).