{"id":54072,"date":"2024-10-28T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T08:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=54072"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T08:52:37","slug":"punjab-holds-lowest-flour-prices-in-country-while-karachi-faces-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/punjab-holds-lowest-flour-prices-in-country-while-karachi-faces-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab holds lowest flour prices in country, while Karachi faces burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (By Rizwan Abbasi): <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/flour-prices-increase-in-punjab-in-line-with-wheat-rates\/\">Flour prices<\/a> in the federal capital and Sindh have skyrocketed, while Punjab has the lowest rates in the country, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>According to a PBS document, residents of Karachi are forced to buy a 20 kg flour bag for Rs 2,200, the most expensive in the country as prices in Sindh have exceeded those in other provinces.<\/p>\n<p>In cities like Hyderabad, Peshawar, and Khuzdar, a 20 kg flour bag is priced at around 2,000 rupees, while in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, the price also reached 2,000 rupees.<\/p>\n<p>In Quetta, the 20 kg bag costs Rs1,970, and in Larkana, the rate has climbed to 1,940 rupees. The 20kg bag costs Rs1,850 in Bannu, and Rs1,820 in Sukkur.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab, on the other hand, maintained the lowest prices, with a 20kg flour bag in Lahore priced at 1,730 rupees, while in Multan it priced at 1,773 rupees, and Bahawalpur at 1,880 rupees.<\/p>\n<p>Faisalabad has the lowest rate, with a 20 kg bag available for Rs1,700. In Gujranwala, Sialkot, and Sargodha, it has been sold at 1,800 rupees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD (By Rizwan Abbasi): Flour prices in the federal capital and Sindh have skyrocketed, while Punjab has the lowest rates in the country, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said in a report. According to a PBS document, residents of Karachi are forced to buy a 20 kg flour bag for Rs 2,200, the most expensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":54074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23403,23402],"class_list":["post-54072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-karachi-flour-prices","tag-punjab-flour-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54072","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54075,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54072\/revisions\/54075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}