Khurram, what’s stopping you from doing the same?

You’re the one that usually has these problems with EVs and manufacturing and all that. Not us! Why don’t you go buy a Chinese EV and test it for yourself, see if it crumples like paper or crumbles to dust? And if you think you are more literate than him, why don’t you try making a Mehran yourself?

No. You’re only here to cry and blame the cause of your own shortcomings and upbringing on other Pakistanis.

Instead of lamenting over here, go and buy a B.Y.D. E.V., I am pretty sure that the government is not going to stop you. By the way, your illiteracy is not even capable of re-creating a Mehran and you dub a Corolla as a bog-standard, no wonder Pakistani economy is going down and is still doomed.

Agreed. What a shame, even African countries are doing better than us.

Totally Agreed. 👍

Its the ultimate storm of the wrong qualities coming together to make the situation unmanageable.

First, the policymakers are not at all up to speed on how the local auto industry works and how it is influenced by the major players and what needs to be done to reign them in.

Second, due to the ignorance and very uninterested attitude of the government itself towards the auto industry, it is always tossed around between various ministers. Nobody takes it seriously because nobody understands it. But nobody will ever admit as much. That is where the auto industry big companies move in with their “advice”.

Third, The same players who are doing the most damage are the same ones doing most of the advising. They tell the government how to handle the industry, who to listen to and who to give incentives to. If that was not the case, why is is that even after 30 years, the local parts vendors are still completely useless.

Watch the 2001 movie “Evolution”. At the start of the movie the main characters go to a crash site of a meteor. To get into the secure area, they say some very funny strange science stuff to the local police and just say, “Its all very technical”. As the local police don’t understand anything of what the guys said, they just focus on “technical”, saying “Oh! its technical. That’s OK you can Go”. And they allow the protagonists to go into the secure area.

Long story short, this is exactly what the companies are doing. They know the government people don’t have a hope in hell to make heads or tails of the local auto industry or how to fix it. So they just go in and simply say “Its technical. Just let us handle it”. So a few palm are greased, a few people are made to look the other way and they are in. The same companies doing the most damage to the economy are the ones dictating the rules. And all others are the devils to be blamed.

The ultimate trifecta of Greed, Corruption and sheer uninterested stupidity to bring down any auto sector in any country.

Because there is no set authority to ensure the following of these rules. These rules are always exploited and loopholed because the government makes these rules discussing it with the very people using these exploits. For example, used imports are so tight it’s almost impossible to import a used car from overseas for yourself, meanwhile it is totally fine for these “local” “manufacturers” to import as many parts from overseas as they want. Because of this, our import spending shot up the roof. What was once counted in millions was now reaching the billions mark. These “halal” imports have caused our import bill to shoot up to the sky more than used imports ever had or will.

Another thing was the EV policy. They made this EV policy discussing it with people who have no intention of bringing EVs to this country; and are even actively against it! So, what do you get? An EV policy that is basically useless. They set the incentives to only benefit EVs with under 50kwh batteries, which frankly none of these or other assemblers in our country even have in their lineup. Even other companies (which are not selling in Pakistan) barely have EVs with under 50kwh batteries, meaning that our government and these assemblers basically killed off the EV scene in Pakistan before it even started.

Either our government bodies are extremely dumb, or they are a part of all this, and they know exactly what they’re doing.

I would say the auto industry policymakers are the main cause for this and even if we see no. of stuff which are written are still not being implemented such as localization which can bring down the prices… but we are still keeping importing …

Real progressive… 🤦‍♂️