The Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) marketing companies on Friday hiked the LPG prices by Rs5 with immediate effect due to rising trend of the commodity at international market.
Chairman LPG Distributors Association Muhammad Irfan Khokhar told APP that the move has jacked up price of a domestic cylinder by Rs60 and commercial cylinder by Rs240 while the total raise in per ton reached to Rs5000.
As a result of latest increase, the domestic cylinder would be available at Rs1450 Dom with Rs125 per kg in Karachi and Rahim Yar Khan, Sukkar and Hyderabad. The LPG price will be Rs130 per kg and domestic cylinder at Rs1510 in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Lahore, Gujranwala, Gurat, Sialkot, Okara, Attock, Jehlum, Bahawalpur, DG Khan and Multan. Similarly, the LPG would be sold at Rs1690 per domestic cylinder with Rs145 per kg at Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, FATA, Naran, Kaghan, Nathiagali and Murree, he informed.
