{"id":48655,"date":"2024-09-15T22:43:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=48655"},"modified":"2024-09-16T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T06:20:38","slug":"ghee-cooking-oil-prices-go-down-in-pakistan-check-latest-rate-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/ghee-cooking-oil-prices-go-down-in-pakistan-check-latest-rate-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghee &#038; cooking oil prices go down in Pakistan: Check latest rate here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/utility-stores-corporation-slashes-prices-of-essential-items\/\">Utility Stores Corporation<\/a> has reduced the prices of essential commodities including cooking oil, ghee and others by 10% across Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>As per the details, the decision comes after the country&#8217;s inflation rate fell to single digits, with core inflation as measured by the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/cpi-based-inflation-eased-to-6-5-in-nov\/\">Consumer Price Index<\/a> (CPI) hitting a 34-month low of 9.6 percent in August 2024. reached<\/p>\n<p>The price cut, effective immediately, affects more than 800 items, with a reduction of Rs 8 to Rs 200.<\/p>\n<p>The new prices are applicable on various products including tea, soap, noodles, ketchup, tetra pack milk, powdered milk, spices, pickles, soap and toothpaste.<\/p>\n<p>Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) subsidy has been temporarily suspended at the Utility Stores Corporation, with officials promising to restore it soon under a new mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the management of Utility Stores Corporation has launched a new strategy aimed at providing excellent service and ensuring the availability of high-quality and affordable products.<\/p>\n<p>The recent decline in inflation is a positive sign for the country&#8217;s economy, with CPI inflation falling from 11.1 percent in July 2024 to 9.6 percent in August 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This represents a significant drop from the same month last year, when the inflation rate was 27.4 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Utility Stores Corporation has reduced the prices of essential commodities including cooking oil, ghee and others by 10% across Pakistan. As per the details, the decision comes after the country&#8217;s inflation rate fell to single digits, with core inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) hitting a 34-month low of 9.6 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3593,12900],"class_list":["post-48655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-consumer-price-index","tag-utility-stores-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48655","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48696,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48655\/revisions\/48696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}