{"id":31627,"date":"2026-04-02T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=31627"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:33:08","slug":"govt-hikes-petrol-to-rs458-40-diesel-rs520-35-per-litre-amid-global-fuel-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=31627","title":{"rendered":"Govt hikes petrol to Rs458.40, diesel Rs520.35 per litre amid global fuel crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Minister for Petroleum Ali Pervaiz Malik on Thursday announced a massive increase in petrol and diesel prices, citing the ongoing Middle East conflict and rising global energy costs. Addressing a press conference along with Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, the petroleum minister said the price of petrol was being hiked to Rs458.5 per litre and that of high-speed diesel to Rs520.35 per litre. &#8220;The new petrol price has been fixed at Rs458.40 per litre, marking a rise of Rs137.23 per litre. Diesel will now cost Rs520.35 per litre, up by Rs184.49 per litre,\u201d announced the minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Minister for Petroleum Ali Pervaiz Malik on Thursday announced a massive increase in petrol and diesel prices, citing the ongoing Middle East conflict and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31628,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}