The weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), decreased by 0.48 percent for the combined consumption group during the week ended on January 22, 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 333.60 points, down from 335.20 points last week. On a year-on-year basis, the SPI increased by 4.18 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) decreased by 0.30 percent to 324.30 points from 325.28 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 declined by 0.37 percent, 0.39 percent, 0.45 percent and 0.54 percent, respectively.
During the week, out of 51 items, prices of 12 (23.53 percent) items increased, 11 (21.57 percent) items decreased and 28 (54.90 percent) items remained stable.
Major commodities registering a week-on-week decrease included chicken (16.68 percent), potatoes (8.52 percent), onions (7.27 percent), LPG (3.54 percent), salt powder (1.52 percent), gur (1.00 percent), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (0.87 percent), cooking oil 5 litre (0.53 percent), pulse masoor (0.27 percent) and cigarettes (0.11 percent).
Items showing an increase in prices included tomatoes (9.83 percent), bananas (3.66 percent), wheat flour (2.27 percent), eggs (1.02 percent), firewood (0.56 percent), pulse mash (0.53 percent), pulse moong (0.43 percent), shirting (0.27 percent), pulse gram (0.16 percent) and sugar (0.14 percent).
On a year-on-year basis, major increases were observed in the prices of wheat flour (38.60 percent), eggs (35.99 percent), gas charges for Q1 (29.85 percent), beef (12.75 percent), chilies powder (12.56 percent), firewood (10.83 percent), tomatoes (10.02 percent), bananas (9.94 percent), powdered milk (9.79 percent), gur (9.42 percent), lawn printed (8.29 percent) and shirting (8.22 percent).
Commodities witnessing a year-on-year decline included potatoes (47.26 percent), garlic (36.28 percent), onions (35.55 percent), pulse gram (29.79 percent), tea packet (17.79 percent), chicken (16.79 percent), pulse mash (12.57 percent), pulse masoor (9.75 percent), diesel (1.27 percent) and petrol (0.95 percent).