{"id":85309,"date":"2025-09-08T12:25:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=85309"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:25:54","slug":"flour-prices-surge-as-punjab-floods-hit-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/flour-prices-surge-as-punjab-floods-hit-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Flour prices surge as Punjab floods hit supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The prices of flour have registered a steep increase throughout Pakistan over the last few weeks, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistans-population-hits-241-49-million-likely-to-double-by-2050-pbs-report\/\">PBS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The price of a 20-kilogram bag of flour has increased by as much as Rs1,050 over the last three weeks to a record high of Rs2,500 at certain markets.<\/p>\n<p>The PBS report pointed out that several cities saw sharp and different price hikes.<\/p>\n<p>A 20-kg bag rose by Rs1,050 in Bannu, the maximum rise across all areas. Peshawar and Larkana came next with a rise of Rs900 per bag.<\/p>\n<p>Prices in Sukkur went up by Rs840, and Lahore saw a hike of Rs830. Likewise, Multan witnessed an increase of Rs826, and Gujranwala as well as Sialkot each registered a hike of Rs817.<\/p>\n<p>In the capital city of Islamabad, the price rose by Rs800. Rawalpindi and Quetta each saw the flour getting dearer by Rs740.<\/p>\n<p>Bahawalpur also witnessed a major increase, with the cost of a 20-kg bag increasing by Rs866.67.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials and market observers blame the record price jump on floods in Pakistan&#8217;s breadbasket province of Punjab, which have hindered the passage of wheat inventories and disrupted supplies to mills.<\/p>\n<p>The interruption has not just caused shortages in main markets but also stoked concerns about further increases in prices if relief and logistical action are not taken in time.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in flour prices is likely to contribute to inflationary pressures already bearing heavily on families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The prices of flour have registered a steep increase throughout Pakistan over the last few weeks, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). The price of a 20-kilogram bag of flour has increased by as much as Rs1,050 over the last three weeks to a record high of Rs2,500 at certain markets. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31086],"class_list":["post-85309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-flour-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85309","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=85309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85310,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85309\/revisions\/85310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}