ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) raised liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) prices by 1.63 per cent for June 2026 on Monday, pushing the cost of a standard household cylinder above Rs3,600 and extending a sharp run-up in cooking fuel costs that began with the Middle East conflict.
The oil and gas regulator fixed the new consumer price at Rs308.76 per kilogram, up from Rs303.8 in May. The increase adds Rs58 to the price of the 11.8-kilogramme domestic cylinder, now priced at Rs3,643.4, and Rs225 to the 45.4-kilogramme commercial cylinder, now pegged at Rs13,886, hitting restaurants, small businesses, and industrial users nationwide. The new prices took effect June 1.
The June hike is modest compared with what has come before. Since the start of Middle East unrest, the government has raised LPG prices by a cumulative 36.7 per cent, equivalent to Rs82.9 per kilogramme and Rs978 on a domestic cylinder. In April alone, prices jumped 35 per cent, adding Rs924 to the domestic cylinder and Rs78.28 per kilogramme in a single month, one of the steepest increases in recent memory.
The burden falls hardest on low-income households, for whom LPG is the primary cooking fuel and who are already squeezed by broad inflation and stagnant wages.
Embedded in the final consumer price is a petroleum levy of Rs4,669 per tonne, an 18 per cent general sales tax of Rs40,799 per tonne, up sharply from Rs26,553 in March, and an additional 18 per cent GST of Rs6,300 levied on marketing, distribution and transportation margins totalling Rs35,000 per tonne.
