Karachi:
The Sensitive Price Index (SPI) for the week ending June 12, 2025, slightly reduced 0.11%, mainly due to lower prices of basic foods such as chicken and garlic, according to data published by the Pakistan Statistics Office (PBS).
Chicken prices decreased abruptly by 11.32%, while garlic decreased by 5.69%. Other reductions were observed in pulse pulp (1.14%), Pulse Masoor (0.43%), pulse gram (0.21%), cooking oil (5 liters) and vegetables (2.5 kg), and two lower 0.20%. Wheat flour decreased by 0.05%and LPG by 0.02%.
However, the prices of several vegetables increased. Tomatoes increased by 19.73%, potatoes by 9.11%, onions by 3.23%and bananas by 2.25%. The increases were also recorded in powder milk (0.73%), eggs (0.67%), GUR (0.52%), Curd and Basmati Broken Rice (0.25%each), GHEE vegetable (1 kg) (0.20%), sugar (0.18%) and Pulse Moong (0.15%).
Of the 51 key figures attended, prices of 15 figures (29.41%) increased, 9 figures (17.65%) decreased and 27 figures (52.94%) remained unchanged.
On an annual basis, the SPI declined by 1.41%. The large reductions were recorded in onions (61.86%), Q1 electricity charges (41.63%), garlic (30.99%), tomatoes (22.87%), pulse pulp (19.18%) and tea with branded tea (17.93%). Other remarkable drops included potatoes (16.49%), wheat flour (14.10%), chicken (8.04%), pulse Masoor (6.13%), Diesel (5.68%) and gasoline (5.41%).
On the contrary, significant annual increases were observed in ladies’ sandals (55.62%), eggs (31.41%), Pulse Moong (30.53%), powder milk (24.73%) and sugar (23.76%). Prices also increased for bananas (16.18%), beef (15.75%), various types of GHEE vegetables, firewood (10.81%), lawn (10.45%) and cooked Daal (9.90%).
The Spi is trained weekly to monitor the short -term movements of basic objects in 50 markets in 17 cities at national level.
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