Inflation Increases by 9.1% in March 2021 Pakistan’s consumer inflation (CPI) rate jumped to 9.1 percent on a year-on-year basis in March 2021 compared to an increase of 8.7 percent in the previous month and 10.2 percent in March 2020, says the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). According to the monthly review on price indices by the PBS on a month-on-month basis, the CPI increased by 0.4 percent in March 2021 compared to an increase of 1.8 percent in the previous month and an increase of 0.02 percent in March 2020. The PBS recorded 9.1% inflation rate three days after Prime Minister Imran Khan sacked Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on charges of not controlling inflation.