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Effective mechanism in place to check edible items’ prices

Posted on September 20, 2021 by News Desk

RAWALPINDI, Sep 19 (APP):Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi Muhammad Ali Sunday said, an effective mechanism was in place to monitor the prices of essential commodities in order to provide relief to the consumers. According to a press release, the DC directed the price control magistrates to inspect […]

FBR chairman directed to to ensure measurable impact on prices of edible oil

Posted on September 16, 2021 by News Desk

Islamabad September 15 (Online Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin on Wednesday directed Chairman FBR to work out a strategy to ensure measurable impact on prices of ghee/edible oil in domestic markets. The volatile prices of edible oil in international market have pushed […]

Prices of eggs, onions, pulses go down

Posted on August 13, 2021 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD, The prices of various food items went down during the week ending on August 12, as compared to the previous week, the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Friday revealed. According to the data, the prices of food […]

Prices of chicken, eggs, tomatoes, pulses, other food items go down

Posted on August 6, 2021 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD, The prices of various food items went down considerably during the week ending on August 5, as compared to the previous week, the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Friday revealed. According to the data, the prices of […]

Prices of chicken, pulses, other food commodities go down

Posted on July 16, 2021 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD, Prices of various food items go down considerably during the week ending on July 15 as compared to the previous week, the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) Friday revealed. According to the data, the prices of bananas […]

March food prices at nearly 7-year high: UN body

Posted on April 9, 2021 by News Desk

Building from a 10-month rise, in March world food prices hit their highest monthly average since June 2014, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 118.5 points this March, up 2.4 points or 2.1% from a month […]

Prices of basic food commodities declining, claims NPMC

Posted on December 16, 2020 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD- National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) on Monday noted that prices of basic food commodities are showing decline due to the policies of the incumbent government. Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh chaired a meeting of NPMC yesterday. The National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) reviewed the […]

POL products prices increased

Posted on December 16, 2020 by News Desk

Islamabad – The government has Tuesday announced an increase of upto Rs 5 per litre in the prices of POL products for the next half of December. As per the notification issued by the Finance Division the prices of almost all the petroleum products have been upward […]

Highest gas wellhead prices, LPG margins making Pakistani gas costly for consumers

Posted on November 30, 2020 by News Desk

Islamabad-The highest gas wellhead prices and LPG margins in the region is making Pakistani gas more expensive for the consumers. The wellhead prices of domestic gas and margin on LPG is higher respectively 33 per cent and 26 per cent than the regional countries, data available with […]

Kitchen items’ prices ease as SPI falls 0.12 pc

Posted on November 7, 2020 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD, : The Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) based weekly inflation for the week ended on November 5 , for the combined consumption group, witnessed decrease of 0.12 percent as compared to the previous week. The SPI for the week under review in the above mentioned […]

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