ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan's consumer inflation accelerated to 4.1% year-on-year in July, up from 3.2% in June, driven by rising prices for food items, fuels and medicines, the statistics bureau ...
Pakistan’s inflation accelerated after the government increased domestic fuel prices, vindicating a decision by policymakers two days ago to unexpectedly keep policy rate unchanged. Consumer price ...
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's consumer inflation rate fell to its lowest in more than nine years, dropping to 2.4% year-on-year in January, the statistics bureau said on Monday. Inflation has cooled ...
Pakistan’s inflation slowed last month to the lowest in more than seven years, though policymakers will remain cautious with risks to price gains from global trade disruptions. Consumer price index ...
KARACHI, March 9 (Reuters) - Pakistan’s central bank kept its key policy rate unchanged at 10.5% on Monday, pausing its easing cycle as rising global energy prices and regional tensions pose new ...
Pakistan can either keep fuel prices artificially low and risk violating IMF conditions or pass the full burden of rising global prices to consumers already struggling with inflation.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the government is fully aware of the situation and fluctuations in international oil prices, and therefore, measures are being taken to provide maximum relief ...
Pakistan’s headline inflation clocked in at 7% on a year-on-year (YoY) basis in February 2026, the highest since October 2024, showed Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) data on Monday, a reading in ...
KARACHI, March 29 (Reuters) - Inflation in Pakistan is expected to hover between 22.5% and 23.5% in March and to further ease in April, the finance ministry said on Friday in its monthly economic ...
Pakistan faces an energy dilemma as the Iran war pushes oil prices higher. IMF pressure for market pricing clashes with ...