{"id":19220,"date":"2026-03-02T13:48:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/2026\/03\/02\/pakistan-inflation-slows-to-23-1-yr-yr-in-feb-lowest-since-mid-2022\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:48:49","slug":"pakistan-inflation-slows-to-23-1-yr-yr-in-feb-lowest-since-mid-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/2026\/03\/02\/pakistan-inflation-slows-to-23-1-yr-yr-in-feb-lowest-since-mid-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan inflation slows to 23.1% yr\/yr in Feb, lowest since mid-2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-articlebody=\"1\">\n<div class=\"_s30J clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  VtlfQ\" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"D3Wk1\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"zPaFh\">\n<div class=\"wJnIp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/umang.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pakistan-inflation-slows-to-231-yryr-in-Feb-lowest-since.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan inflation slows to 23.1% year-on-year in February, lowest since mid-2022\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>KARACHI: Pakistan&#8217;s consumer price index in February rose 23.1% from the same month last year, marking the slowest annual inflation rate since June 2022, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/> The country has been battling skyrocketing inflation, which hit an all-time high of 38% annually last May, driven in part by new tax measures the government imposed to meet demands from the International Monetary Fund. Islamabad&#8217;s financing agreement with the IMF expires on April 11.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> On a monthly basis, the February CPI was unchanged, having increased every month since the fiscal year began last July.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/> Pakistan&#8217;s Finance Ministry projected in a monthly report on Thursday that inflation would be around 24.5%-25.5% in February, with expectations to decline further to 23.5%-24.5% in March as the crop and commodity supply situation improves.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/> The annual CPI for January stood at 28.3%. February&#8217;s improvement was partly due to base effects.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/> In January, Pakistan&#8217;s central bank kept its benchmark interest rate at 22% for the fifth consecutive policy meeting and raised its full-year inflation projections.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/> The State Bank of Pakistan governor said the increase in its average inflation forecast for the fiscal year ending in June to 23%-25% from a previous projection of 20%-22% was due to rising gas and electricity prices. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Pakistan&#8217;s consumer price index in February rose 23.1% from the same month last year, marking the slowest annual inflation rate since June 2022, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday. The country has been battling skyrocketing inflation, which hit an all-time high of 38% annually last May, driven in part by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49592,49591,49594,49593,49590],"class_list":["post-19220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-annual-inflation","tag-consumer-price-index","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-pakistan-bureau-of-statistics","tag-pakistan-inflation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}