{"id":109683,"date":"2026-04-26T17:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=109683"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:40:19","slug":"govt-issues-reason-behind-petrol-price-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/govt-issues-reason-behind-petrol-price-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt issues reason behind petrol price increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The reasons for the increase in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/indication-of-a-major-increase-in-the-prices-of-petroleum-products\/\">prices of petrol<\/a> and high-speed diesel have been revealed.<br \/>\nThe prices of petroleum products were increased due to an increase in government taxes and inland freight equalization margins.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a decrease in the ex-refinery cost of petrol and high-speed diesel, the government increased the prices of both products by Rs 26.77 per liter.<\/p>\n<p>If the levy tax on petrol and the IFE margin on diesel had not been increased, the prices would not have increased.<br \/>\nThe ex-refinery price of high-speed diesel decreased by Rs 3.44 per liter and the ex-refinery price of petrol by Rs 3.14 per liter in a week after April 18, but the government increased the prices of petrol and diesel by Rs 26.77 per liter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The reasons for the increase in the prices of petrol and high-speed diesel have been revealed. The prices of petroleum products were increased due to an increase in government taxes and inland freight equalization margins. Despite a decrease in the ex-refinery cost of petrol and high-speed diesel, the government increased the prices of both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":100996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[1833],"class_list":["post-109683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-petrol-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109684,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109683\/revisions\/109684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}