{
  "id": 2482760,
  "title": "Weekly inflation rises",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/weekly-inflation-rises",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-21T23:12:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn Business",
    "slug": "dawn-business",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2024454/weekly-inflation-rises"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Islamabad saw a 9.66% rise in short-term inflation, driven by higher petrol and diesel prices, according to official figures released on Friday. Transportation costs have climbed over recent weeks, and this rise is evident in the prices of essential food items such as onions and tomatoes. On a week-on-week basis, the SPI increased by 0.49%. The SPI demonstrated a general upward trend, reflecting ongoing pressure on living costs. This broad-based rise was mainly attributed to significant year-on-year price increases for items like petrol (27.65%), diesel (33.08%), LPG (51.69%), and wheat flour (62.25%). The items with the highest price hikes over the previous week included onions (14.17%), petrol (3.77%), chicken (3.35%), garlic (2%), pulse gram (0.93%), tea prepared (0.70%), tea Lipton (0.34%), milk fresh (0.17%), cooked daal (0.15%), washing soap (0.12%), and cigarettes (0.06%). Conversely, prices fell for eggs (5.78%), diesel (5.15%), tomatoes (4.99%), potatoes (1.17%), LPG (1.04%), bananas (0.91%), pulse moong (0.56%), sugar (0.24%), pulse masoor and masheer (0.14%). Annual price increases were most pronounced for onions (132.52%), tomatoes (93.21%), wheat flour (62.25%), LPG (51.69%), diesel (33.08%), petrol (27.65%), electricity for Q1 (22.72%), bananas (17.66%), chili powder (16.37%), mutton (15.98%), beef (13.54%), and plain bread (9.37%).",
  "summary": "ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), rose 9.66 per cent year-on-year for the week ending Aug 20, mainly due to higher petrol and diesel prices, according to official data released on Friday. As a result, transportation costs have increased over the past few weeks. This increase has also been reflected in the prices of essential food items, including onions…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}