{"id":69507,"date":"2025-03-31T17:08:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=69507"},"modified":"2025-03-31T17:08:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T12:08:31","slug":"govt-announces-lpg-price-hike-amid-rising-import-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/govt-announces-lpg-price-hike-amid-rising-import-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt announces LPG price hike amid rising import costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The government has announced an increase in the price of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/ogra-slashes-lpg-prices-by-rs6-15-ahead-of-ramadan\/\">liquefied petroleum gas<\/a> (LPG) in Pakistan. As of April 1, the new rate will be Rs248.37 per kilogramme, a 54 paisa increase from the previous price.<\/p>\n<p>This change will affect both residential and commercial consumers who rely on LPG for daily use.<\/p>\n<p>In another development, the import price of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/govt-to-refund-excess-payments-to-power-consumers\/\">Regasified Liquefied Natural Gas<\/a> (RLNG) increased by 4 cents per MMBTU last month, bringing the new import rate to $12.94 per MMBTU.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, authorities have stepped up their efforts to crack down on illegal LPG cylinder refilling operations, which pose serious safety risks. Three individuals were arrested in a covert operation on Saturday for their involvement in illegal gas refilling.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have warned that unauthorized refilling of LPG cylinders not only violates safety regulations but also endangers lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The government has announced an increase in the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Pakistan. As of April 1, the new rate will be Rs248.37 per kilogramme, a 54 paisa increase from the previous price. This change will affect both residential and commercial consumers who rely on LPG for daily use. In another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1256,13373],"class_list":["post-69507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-liquefied-petroleum-gas","tag-lpg-price-increased"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69507","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=69507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69508,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69507\/revisions\/69508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}