{"id":9713,"date":"2026-02-19T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=9713"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:37:11","slug":"karachi-retailers-defy-official-price-list-sell-essential-items-at-inflated-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=9713","title":{"rendered":"Karachi Retailers Defy Official Price List, Sell Essential Items at Inflated Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karachi (HRNW)<\/strong> \u2014 Retailers across <strong>Karachi<\/strong> are openly violating the official price list issued by the <strong>Commissioner Karachi Office<\/strong>, selling essential commodities to citizens at arbitrary and inflated prices.<\/p>\n<p>According to residents from various areas of the city, the current market rates are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Potatoes:<\/strong> Rs. 40 per kg instead of the official Rs. 23<\/li>\n<li><strong>Onions:<\/strong> Rs. 50\u201355 per kg instead of Rs. 40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sugar:<\/strong> Rs. 160 per kg instead of Rs. 141<\/li>\n<li><strong>Public Wheat Flour:<\/strong> Rs. 121 per kg instead of Rs. 107<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Citizens complained that the Commissioner\u2019s price list and his representatives are nowhere to be seen in the markets, making it impossible to control the surge in prices.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have expressed serious concern over the situation and urged authorities to take immediate notice and strict action against violators.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Support Independent Reporting:<\/strong><br \/>\nHelp HRNW continue delivering reliable and investigative journalism.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/hrnww.com\/support-us\">Support us here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi (HRNW) \u2014 Retailers across Karachi are openly violating the official price list issued by the Commissioner Karachi Office, selling essential commodities to citizens at arbitrary and inflated prices. According to residents from various areas of the city, the current market rates are as follows: Potatoes: Rs. 40 per kg instead of the official Rs&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9715,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9713\/revisions\/9715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}