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title: "Inflation rises in Pakistan based on WPI and weekly consumer prices"
description: "Most outlets reported a significant increase in inflation, with Business Recorder highlighting a 13.3 percent year-on-year rise in WPI-based inflation and a 11.53 percent weekly consumer-price increase. Profit provided additional detail on specific commodity price changes, noting wheat flour, chicken, and gram pulse as among the most sharply rising items."
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# Inflation rises in Pakistan based on WPI and weekly consumer prices

business · updated 10 Oct 2026, 8:21 AM PKT · 9–10 Oct 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets reported a significant increase in inflation, with Business Recorder highlighting a 13.3 percent year-on-year rise in WPI-based inflation and a 11.53 percent weekly consumer-price increase. Profit provided additional detail on specific commodity price changes, noting wheat flour, chicken, and gram pulse as among the most sharply rising items.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Profit** — [Pakistan's weekly inflation rises 0.57%, annual rate climbs to 11.97%](https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/10/10/pakistans-weekly-inflation-rises-057percent-annual-rate-climbs-to-1197percent) · 10 Oct 2026, 8:21 AM PKT
  > Wheat flour prices jump 5.69%, chicken 4.93%, gram pulse 3.99%, petrol and tomatoes 2.40% each, masoor pulse 1.29%, prepared tea 1.08%, cooked daal 0.98%, mash pulse 0.91% and LPG 0.57%
- **Business Recorder** — [NPMC informed: WPI-based inflation jumps 13.3pc YoY](https://www.brecorder.com/news/40443374/npmc-informed-wpi-based-inflation-jumps-133pc-yoy) · 9 Oct 2026, 6:17 AM PKT · 83% identical wording to the newest filing
  > ISLAMABAD: The inflation based on Wholesale Price Index (WPI) jumped 13.3 percent year-on-year, while weekly consumer-price inflation climbed 11.53 percent in the week ended October 1, the National Price Monitoring Committee (NPMC) was informed on Thursday. Major annual increases were recorded in onions, LPG, electricity, diesel, petrol and wheat flour, while chicken, garlic, gram pulse and LPG...

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2 articles from 2 outlets, 9–10 Oct 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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