Karachi : Pakistan's annual consumer price inflation rate slowed to 9.6 per cent in August, the first single-digit reading in almost three years, the statistics agency said on Monday. Pakistan struck a deal last month with the International Monetary Fund for a $7 billion loan programme that includes tough measures such as higher taxes on farm incomes and electricity prices. The prospect of such moves has worried poor and middle class Pakistanis. But inflation has started moving on a downward

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