The weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), increased by 0.12 percent for the combined consumption group during the week ended on January 08, 2026, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday.
According to the PBS data, the SPI for the week under review was recorded at 334.35 points, up from 333.96 points last week. On a year-on-year basis, the SPI increased by 3.20 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 0.12 percent, to 324.37 points from 323.98 points.
The SPI for consumption groups of Rs 17,733-22,888; Rs 22,889-29,517; Rs 29,518-44,175; and above Rs 44,175 increased by 0.13 percent, 0.13 percent, 0.13 percent and 0.11 percent, respectively.
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 21 (41.18%) items increased, 08 (15.68%) items decreased and 22 (43.14%) items remained stable.
Major commodities registering a week-on-week increase included Wheat Flour (5.07%), Chicken (2.86%), Garlic (2.44%), Chilies Powder (1.01%), LPG (0.88%), Tea Prepared (0.73%), Shirting (0.61%), Sugar (0.58%), Bread (0.51%), Rice Basmati Broken (0.41%) and Firewood (0.25%).
Items showing a decrease in prices included Potatoes (3.73%), Onions (2.20%), Pulse Gram (1.51%), Eggs (1.44%), Pulse Mash (0.65%), Pulse Masoor (0.38%), Bananas (0.21%) and Tomatoes (0.05%).
On a year-on-year basis, major increases were observed in the prices of Wheat Flour (31.12%), Gas Charges for Q1 (29.85%), Beef (13.15%), Chilies Powder (11.43%), Sugar (11.18%), Bananas and Firewood (10.57%) each, Gur (10.50%), Powdered Milk (9.51%), Shirting (8.73%), Lawn Printed (8.29%) and Eggs (8.03%).
Commodities witnessing year-on-year decline included Tomatoes (57.04%), Potatoes (48.71%), Onions (41.33%), Garlic (36.07%), Pulse Gram (30.97%), Tea Lipton (17.79%), Pulse Mash (14.34%), Pulse Masoor (8.92%), LPG (1.22%) and Diesel (0.30%).