Since August last year, food inflation in Pakistan has been in double digits. It has remained between 10.4% and 19.5% in urban areas and between 12.6% and 23.8% in rural areas, revealed the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).

Behind these numbers lie the miseries of millions of financially poor Pakistanis—more than 10 million of them out of jobs. For September this year, the PBS reported 12.4% food inflation in urban areas and 15.8% in rural areas.

The federal government acknowledges that high food inflation is troubling for the people, especially those falling in low income brackets, but holds provincial governments largely responsible for it.

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