ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s annual inflation rose to 37.97% year on year in May, the statistics bureau said on Thursday, becoming the highest rate in South Asia.
The CPI stood at 36.5% in April, which the bureau said was the highest on their records.
The latest 38% rise tops that of Sri Lanka, which posted annual inflation of 25.2% in May.
The month-on-month rise in May was 1.58%, the bureau said in a news release, adding vegetables, pulses and chicken prices posted the biggest increases.
Inflation has been on an upward trend since early this year after the government took painful measures as part of fiscal adjustments demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to unlock stalled funding, which still has not been disbursed.
(Reporting by Islamabad bureau; editing by Hugh Lawson and Jason Neely)
