By: Imran

Imran — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:14:58 +0000

Every time they increase, its like government saying”ib k kr k dikha”

By: Ali Khan

Ali Khan — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:23:03 +0000

"According to a working paper of the ministry, the automotive sector’s production accounts for 3% of the country’s GDP. It employs 500,000 people and generates 2.4 million indirect jobs. It said Pakistan had achieved up to 73% localization in cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs), 90% localization in tractors and 94% in motorcycles." WOW!!! What the hell are they smoking?!! 73% localization?!! How then can you explain such high import bills generated by the local assemblers? Even before the addition of the new assemblers, the old three were generating import bills that put the JDM used car import bills to shame. In FY 2017-2018 the last full fiscal year before the import schemes were limited by the current government, the import bill for the assembly parts for new cars by our original three assemblers stood at around 810 million USD. The import of used JDMS for that same year stood at around 458 million USD total. Compare those figures, which is worse?! After that, in each consecutive FY, the import bill for the local assemblers has only increased. Now, parts imported by the local assemblers are at almost 1.8 billion USD! Yet they are hailed as such big contributors to the economy?!! Used cars and JDM used cars Imports are also a very very big contributor to generating auto industry jobs. If that were not true, places like shobah bazzar Peshawar, sultan ka kho in Pindi/Islamabad or Bilal gunj in Lahore etc. would not exist. Such big car markets exist in almost all cities in Pakistan, catering to the used market primarily. Not only for cars, but such markets are there for two and three wheelers as well. Such markets are the biggest job creators, bar none!. The only thing our local assemblers generate is propaganda, false statistics and controlling the government's opinions. And we have incompetents sitting in useless committees who have no power to even do their own investigations.

By: ABID REHMAN

ABID REHMAN — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:14:02 +0000

Good initiative and should be publish report to Pakistani Consumer because they always makes fools

By: سچاسودا

سچاسودا — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:35:59 +0000

In reply to Moeez.

but PAC actions are quite contrary to it 😛

By: Khurram

Khurram — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 04:15:30 +0000

I think the article should not have used an image of the poor child because children are pure, in contrast, neither Pakistani government, nor Pakistani public engaged in automobile sector, and companies have that quality. In fact, the hearts of most of all these people are as shameless as a *****. Mod edit: inappropriate words removed

By: Moeez

Moeez — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:41:40 +0000