ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), increased by 14.75 per cent year on year for the week ending June 4, mainly due to higher retail prices of perishable food items, according to official data released on Friday.

The increase was largely driven by sharp gains in key items, including petrol (50.60pc), diesel (49.63pc), electricity charges (59.­40pc), wheat flour (59.­88pc), and liquefied petroleum gas (57.09pc).

The SPI has now recorded an increase for the 42nd week. On a week on week basis, the index declined by 0.56pc compared to the previous week, according to PBS.

The items, whose prices increased the most over the previous week included onions (28.16pc), potatoes (21.91pc), tomatoes (9.56­pc), bananas (1.20pc), vegetable ghee 2.5 kg (0.91pc), washing soap (0.68pc), LPG (0.66pc), cooking oil 5 liter (0.64pc), milk fresh (0.61pc), wheat flour (0.59­pc) and cigarettes (0.57pc).

The items whose prices saw a decline week-on-week included chicken (9.48pc), garlic (9.13pc), diesel (7.01pc), petrol (6.80pc), pulse gram (0.38pc), pulse mash (0.34pc), pulse moong (0.11pc), mustard oil (0.04pc), beef (0.02pc) and firewood (0.01pc).

Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2026