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Food inflation grows 8.4% in August

Food Prices Hit 6-year High Around The World: UN

KARACHI: The headline or food inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has increased 8.4 per cent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis in August 2021, compared with an increase of 8.4 per cent in the previous month and 8.2 per cent in August 2020, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Wednesday. On … Read more

PM Imran Khan orders steps to stabilise essential items’ prices

Kamyab Pakistan Programme

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday directed the provincial chief secretaries to ensure all possible administrative measures to stabilise the prices of basic essential items, particularly monitoring of the illogical difference of prices at wholesale and retail levels. Presiding over a meeting to review the demand and supply, as well as the prices of … Read more