ISLAMABAD: Weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Indicator (SPI), declined by 0.59 per cent for the combined consumption group during the week ended February 12, 2026, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Friday.
The SPI for the week under review was recorded at 331.81 points, compared with 333.79 points a week earlier. On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, the SPI rose by 4.26 per cent.
The SPI, with base year 2015-16 = 100, covers 17 urban centres and 51 essential items across all expenditure groups.
For the lowest consumption group (up to Rs 17,732), the index decreased by 0.62 per cent to 322.23 points from 324.23 points.
The SPI for the consumption groups of Rs17,733-22,888; Rs22,889-29,517; Rs29,518-44,175; and above Rs44,175 declined by 0.62 per cent, 0.59 per cent, 0.62 per cent and 0.58 per cent, respectively.
During the week, prices of 15 items (29.41 per cent) increased, 15 items (29.41 per cent) decreased, while 21 items (41.18 per cent) remained stable.
Major commodities registering week-on-week declines included eggs (17.61 per cent), tomatoes (12.02 per cent), chicken (6.34 per cent), onions (2.73 per cent), potatoes (2.49 per cent), salt powder (1.69 per cent), LPG (1.57 per cent), wheat flour (1.31 per cent) and sugar (1.12 per cent).
Commodities witnessing increases during the week included bananas (7.62 per cent), garlic (4.35 per cent), pulse mash (2.69 per cent), chillies powder (1.68 per cent), mutton (0.80 per cent), beef (0.37 per cent), mustard oil (0.34 per cent), shirting (0.31 per cent), cigarettes (0.24 per cent), vegetable ghee (1 kg) (0.08 per cent), georgette (0.02 per cent) and lawn printed (0.01 per cent).
On a YoY basis, major increases were recorded in tomatoes (73.36 per cent), wheat flour (33.82 per cent), gas charges for Q1 (29.85 per cent), chillies powder (15.20 per cent), beef (12.70 per cent), eggs (11.76 per cent), bananas (11.67 per cent), firewood (11.4 per cent), LPG (10.73 per cent), powdered milk (9.89 per cent), shirting (8.82 per cent) and gur (8.81 per cent).
Commodities registering YoY declines included potatoes (44.68 per cent), garlic (30.78 per cent), pulse gram (23.81 per cent), onions (22.04 per cent), chicken (20.13 per cent), tea Lipton (13.95 per cent), salt powder (12.52 per cent), pulse masoor (10.88 per cent) and petrol (1.33 per cent).
