The marketing companies on Thursday increased prices of the Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) from Rs 5 to Rs 10 per Kg subsequently increasing the price of domestic cylinder from Rs 60 to Rs 120 and commercial cylinder from Rs 240 to Rs 480.

Chairman All Pakistan LPG association Irfan Khokhar said price of the gas in Gilgit-Baltistan, FATA, Balakot, Muzaffarabad, Bagh, Azad Kashmir, Murree and Swat would be Rs 150 to Rs 160 per kg and the domestic cylinder would be available at Rs 1750 to Rs 1870.

While the LPG per kg would be available at Rs 140 to Rs 145 in Rawalpindi and Islamabad and the domestic cylinder will cost Rs 1630 to Rs 1690. In Lahore, Gujrat, Sialkot, Sahiwal, Khanewal, Kasur, Sargodha, Behra the LPG price would be Rs 120 to Rs 125 per kg and the domestic cylinder would be sold at Rs 1390 to Rs 1450.

LPG in Peshawar, Rahim Yar Khan, Dera Ismail Khan and Sakhar would be sold at Rs 130 to Rs 135 per kg and the domestic cylinder would be sold at Rs 1510 to RS 1570. Similarly in Bahawalpur, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Faisalabad the price of LPG would be Rs 125 to Rs 130 per kg and in Karachi the gas would be sold at RS 110 to RS 115 per.