Pakistan’s short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), fell by 0.59% for the week ending February 12. The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics shared the latest data. For weeks, SPI inflation had been rising due to higher costs in perishables, pulses, and meat. Prices that dropped most were eggs down 17.61%, tomatoes down 12.02%, chicken down 6.34%, onions down 2.73%, potatoes down 2.49%, salt powder down 1.69%, LPG down 1.57%, wheat flour down 1.31%, and sugar down 1.12%. On the rise were bananas up 7.62%, garlic up 4.35%, pulse mash up 2.69%, chili powder up 1.68%, mutton up 0.80%, beef up 0.37%, mustard oil up 0.34%, shirting fabric up 0.31%, cigarettes up 0.24%, vegetable ghee by 0.08%, and georgette fabric by 0.02%. Looking at the year-on-year numbers, inflation increased 4.26%. This was mainly due to large jumps in prices of tomatoes (73.36%), wheat flour (33.82%), gas charges for Q1 (29.85%), chili powder (15.20%), beef (12.70%), eggs (11.76%), bananas (11.67%), firewood (11.40%), LPG (10.73%), powdered milk (9.89%), shirting (8.82%), and gur (8.81%). In contrast, potatoes fell 44.68%, garlic 30.78%, pulse gram 23.81%, onions 22.04%, chicken 20.13%, Lipton tea 13.95%, salt powder 12.52%, pulse masoor 10.88%, and petrol 1.33%. The SPI uses a base year of 2015–16 = 100. It covers 17 urban centres and tracks prices of 51 essential items across all income groups.