A 20-kg wheat bag can cost up to Rs2,200 in Karachi, making it the most costly in the nation, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. In the city, the price has increased by Rs. 200 in the last two weeks.
A 20-kg bag of flour costs Rs2,000 in Hyderabad, Rs1,950 in Khuzdar, and Rs1,946 in Islamabad.
A twenty kilogram flour bag costs Rs. 1,933 in Rawalpindi and Rs. 1,880 in Quetta.
A 20-kg bag of flour costs Rs1,850 in Bannu, Rs1,840 in Larkana, and Rs1,800 in Peshawar and Sargodha. It still costs about Rs1,800 in Gujranwala, Bahawalpur, and Sialkot.
It costs Rs1,780 in Sukkur and Rs1,733 in Multan, in the meantime. Prices in Lahore and Faisalabad have somewhat decreased; a 20-kg bag of flour costs about Rs1,700.
Following fruitful negotiations with the owners of flour mills, the federal government previously eliminated a 5.5 percent advance income tax.
This happened when the government established a committee to bargain with the association of flour mills, who had declared and staged a walkout against the advance income tax included in the budget for 2024–2025.
The negotiations were successful in ending with the government abolishing the levy and the mill owners calling off their strike as a result.
