Pakistan Revenue
ISLAMABAD: The prices of essential items recorded an increase of 20 per cent owing to first jump in petroleum prices announced a week ago, official documents revealed on Friday. The inflation based on Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) has increased by 20.04 per cent on year on year basis by week ended June 02, 2022, according […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit ballooned to $43.33 billion during first 11 months (July – May) of fiscal year 2021/2022 owing to massive rise in import bill during the same period. According to trade data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Thursday, the trade deficit widened by 58 per cent to $43.334 billion during […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s headline inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 13.8 per cent in May 2022 on Year on Year (YoY) basis as compared with 13.4 per cent in the previous month, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Wednesday. The latest inflation number is also higher when compared with 10.9 per cent […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s imports reached to record high at $65.49 billion during first 10 months (July – April) 2021/2022, according to data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). The import bill increased by 46.41 per cent to $65.47 billion during first 10 months of the current fiscal year as compared with $44.73 billion in the […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s headline inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased sharply by 13.4 per cent in April 2022, according to details released on Sunday. Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said that CPI inflation General, increased by 13.4 per cent on year-on-year basis in April 2022 as compared to an increase of 12.7 per cent […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit in the month of March 2022 increased by only 5.5 per cent due to higher growth of exports during the month. According to data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Monday, the exports recorded a growth of 16 per cent to $2.74 billion in March 2022 as compared with […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s headline inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 12.7 per cent in March 2022 on year on year (YoY) basis as compared with an increase of 12.2 per cent in the previous month and 9.1 per cent in March 2021. On month-on-month basis, it increased by 0.8 per cent in March […]
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit has widened to around $32 billion in first eight months (July – February) 2021/2022 8MFY22, according to official data released on Wednesday. The trade deficit widened by 82.26 per cent during the period under review as compared with the deficit of $17.53 billion in the corresponding period of the last fiscal […]
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ISLAMABAD: Food inflation based on consumer price index (CPI) has increased by 14.6 per cent in February 2022 for people living in rural areas as compared with 11.8 per cent in the previous months, according to data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the food inflation increased by 14.3 per cent […]
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ISLAMABAD: The inflation based on Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI) jumped up by 18 per cent by week ended February 17, 2022 as compared with the same week a year ago. According to data released by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Friday, the year on year trend depicts an increase of 18.09 per cent, in […]
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