Pakistan inflation 12.63pc in Dec

Pakistan’s annual inflation rate dropped marginally in December to 12.63 percent compared with 12.67 percent in November, as some commodity prices eased, the Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday.

Prices of food including tomatoes, wheat, chicken, cooking oil, sugar, motor fuel and liquefied hydrocarbons, which make up a third of the overall basket used to calculate inflation - were the main items that eased in price, the bureau said.