Weekly inflation slips 0.35pc as tomatoes, diesel climb

Pakistan's weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator, fell 0.35 percent in the week ended October 29, 2026, with the index easing to 373.51 points from 374.84 points a week earlier for the combined consumption group, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics reported on Friday.

On a year-on-year basis the index was 11.32 percent higher, according to the bureau's figures.

Prices of 15 items in the basket rose during the week while 12 declined, ARY News reported, citing the PBS report. The remaining items were unchanged.

Tomatoes posted the sharpest weekly increase, rising 34.91 percent, ARY News reported. Potato prices climbed 3.27 percent, diesel 2.53 percent, gram pulse 2.11 percent and plain bread 1.29 percent. The quarterly electricity tariff was adjusted down 3.92 percent for the week.

Among the commodities that became cheaper, live chicken fell 2.95 percent and eggs 2.81 percent. Flour was 0.83 percent cheaper, liquefied petroleum gas 0.73 percent, petrol 0.39 percent, sugar 0.35 percent and powdered milk 0.33 percent.

Over the twelve months, LPG recorded the largest increase at 106.86 percent, followed by the quarterly electricity tariff at 52.38 percent. Diesel was up 45.13 percent and petrol 43.61 percent year on year, flour 34.87 percent and chicken 31.72 percent, the PBS data showed.

Several items were substantially cheaper than a year earlier. Potato prices were down 38.67 percent, tomatoes 27.99 percent, eggs 26.70 percent, sugar 25.21 percent, masoor dal 8.37 percent and moong dal 6.42 percent.

The SPI records retail prices of a fixed set of essential commodities and is published weekly by the bureau. The week-on-week figure compares the latest index with the previous week's reading, while the annual figure compares it with the same week a year earlier.