KARACHI: For most the list of the cheapest cities of Pakistan should be shocking. With many consider cosmopolitan cities like Lahore and Karachi expensive, the cheapest cities would change the mindset of many.
After Khuzdar, a district of Balochistan province, Lahore, the provincial capital city of Punjab province, is the cheapest city of the country.
After an inflation survey in 40 cities of the country, State Bank of Pakistan has indexed these 15 cities as the cheapest cities.
Indexing as the cheapest |
City Name |
General Inflation |
Food Inflation |
Non-food Inflation |
1 |
Khuzdar |
4.7 |
4.0 |
5.2 |
2 |
Lahore |
5.8 |
5.9 |
5.8 |
3 |
Gujranwala |
6 |
6.4 |
5.7 |
4 |
Faisalabad |
6.1 |
7.8 |
4.8 |
5 |
Abbotabad |
7.1 |
9.2 |
5.7 |
6 |
Sargodha |
7.1 |
5.9 |
7.9 |
7 |
Bahawalpur |
7.3 |
5.9 |
8.2 |
8 |
Multan |
7.6 |
8.9 |
6.6 |
9 |
Islamabad |
7.6 |
9.2 |
6.4 |
10 |
Sukkur |
7.7 |
8.4 |
7.2 |
11 |
Jhang |
8 |
5.7 |
9.5 |
12 |
Hyderabad |
8 |
12 |
5.2 |
13 |
Wazirabad |
8.2 |
8.1 |
8.2 |
14 |
Karachi |
8.2 |
12 |
5.4 |
15 |
Sialkot |
8.2 |
7.6 |
8.7 |
Know the 25 most expensive cities of Pakistan.
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