{"id":72880,"date":"2025-05-03T17:08:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T12:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=72880"},"modified":"2025-05-03T17:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T12:08:32","slug":"20kg-flour-bag-witnesses-hike-up-by-rs130-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/20kg-flour-bag-witnesses-hike-up-by-rs130-in-lahore\/","title":{"rendered":"20kg flour bag witnesses hike up by Rs130 in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A 20-kg bag of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/farmers-reject-punjab-cm-maryams-wheat-support-package\/\">wheat flour<\/a> witnesses a hike in prices as the bag costs up to Rs1,230 in the open market on Saturday, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Kiryana Merchants <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/rawalpindi-traders-announce-shut-down-amid-sco-meeting\/\">Association<\/a> reports that the price of a 20-kg flour bag has risen by Rs. 130 in the last two weeks. The flour mill owners stated that if the price of wheat stabilizes, flour prices will fall.<\/p>\n<p>Flour mill operators reported that wheat is being purchased for more than Rs2,300 per 40 kg, even though prices were lower on the open market two weeks prior.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, according to figures released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics\u00a0(PBS) on Friday, Pakistan\u2019s annual inflation rate in April 2025 was a record low of 0.3 percent on an annual basis.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that Pakistan\u2019s annual inflation rate reached its highest level in history in May 2023, reaching a record high of 37.97 percent.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2025,\u00a0CPI inflation\u00a0fell to 0.3 percent on an annual basis, down from 0.7 percent the month before and 17.3 percent in April 2024. On a month-over-month basis, it fell by 0.8 percent in April 2025 after rising by 0.9 percent the month before and falling by 0.4 percent in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Urban CPI inflation dropped to 0.5 percent year-over-year in April 2025 from 1.2 percent the month before and 19.4 percent in April 2024. On a month-over-month basis, it fell by 0.7 percent in April 2025 after rising by 0.8 percent the month before and falling by 0.1 percent in April 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A 20-kg bag of wheat flour witnesses a hike in prices as the bag costs up to Rs1,230 in the open market on Saturday, according to media reports. The Kiryana Merchants Association reports that the price of a 20-kg flour bag has risen by Rs. 130 in the last two weeks. The flour mill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14810,2],"tags":[28392,144],"class_list":["post-72880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore","category-pakistan","tag-flour-bags","tag-lahore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72880","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=72880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72881,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72880\/revisions\/72881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}