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Pakistan: Oil, eatable import bills surge by 60 percent

Amid a declining economy, Pakistan's oil and eatable import bills surged by 59.98 per cent to USD 21.87 billion in the July-March period, local media reported.

Last year, in the corresponding period, the import bill surged to USD 13.67 billion owing to higher international prices and massive depreciation of the Pakistani Rupee, Dawn newspaper reported.