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Pakistan consumer inflation rate falls to 8.4%

Reuters . Karachi
03 Aug 2021 00:00:00 | Update: 03 Aug 2021 03:25:11

A vendor arranges different types of rice, with their prices displayed, at his shop in a wholesale market in Karachi, Pakistan–Reuters Photo

Pakistan’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 8.4 per cent in July compared with a year earlier, easing from June, the statistics bureau said on Monday.

July is the first month of the country’s new financial year 2021-22.”CPI inflation General, increased by 8.4 per cent on year-on-year basis in July 2021 as compared to an increase of 9.7 per cent in the previous month and 9.3 per cent in July 2020,” the bureau said recently.