December 14, 2022
PAKISTAN EXPORTS 120,000 LOCALLY MANUFACTURED MOBILE PHONEShttps://pta.gov.pk/en/media-center/single-media/pakistan-exports-120000-locally-manufactured-mobile-phones-141222

This company is in connexion with Sony, Huawei, LG and Honor, but it isn’t specified in the press release which brand or model is the one being exported in 120,000 quantity.
When private parties can do it, wonder why they don’t re-energized the Telephone Industries of Pakistan Haripur Hazara (TIP).

Samsung A13 was launched at 33,600 (128GB) in April 2022. Then somewhere around June its price was increased to 38,500. Now (Aug 2022) that the US$ has fallen from 256 to 214, the A13 has climbed to 43,100.
Check Samsung’s official store here https://www.samsung.com/pk/smartphones/galaxy-a/galaxy-a13-orange-128gb-sm-a135fzohpkd/buy/

So … the more obsolete it becomes, the more expensive it becomes … without any new features or upgrades to boast of. This would have never happened if it was being imported. Usually they are expensive at launch and quickly become cheaper – even with the increasing exchange rate.

I am surprised how his comment has been approved. Nothing related to the article has even been discussed. All he’s doing is writing his personal agenda, which you have very frankly disproven. 😒

Mobile phone is a basic need, the vehicle is not
and i thought its vice versa, transportation is a basic need, no?

zero innovation is required behind making budget phones hence such industries need lesser investment, education and continuous development of education. 
what sort of innovation you see in Bolan and Ravi in a span of 40 years & more?

Which phone is fully manufactured in Pakistan? Does not our import bill contains selfie cameras, panels, batteries, motherboards required for making phones?
Which car is fully manufactured in Pakistan? Does not our import bill contain transmissions, suspensions, engines, airbag assemblies, etc required to making cars? and what about car accessorizing? aren’t all these import too?

P.S. Which phone is fully manufactured in Pakistan? Does not our import bill contains selfie cameras, panels, batteries, motherboards required for making phones?

Sahi baat hai! These JDMs were the most desirable ones, everyone I knew was considering one when imports were open thanks to it’s cheap price and huge fuel savings.

Your last pera has the best argument. If the auto mafia is now touting the point that Pakistan has a “free market” and that is reason enough for the government not to hold them responsible or interfere in their business then that free market also gives the right to importers to import used JDM to their hearts content. Why are they interfering in that process and stopping it? They have no right.
They just want to have their cake and eat it too. Control the market without any accountability. I hope some one in our government sees this and has the honesty and balls enough to actually do something about it.

Pakistan say muhabbat chekhtay ho. Now prove it!

Another interesting info: the PAAPAM participants are also in the mobile phone assembling industry: https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/946709-local-cell-phone-industry-meeting-70-percent-of-country-s-demand

The government spent a long time developing the PTA DIRBS (Device Identification Registration and Blocking System) before announcing the Mobile Device Manufacturing Policy (MDMP)/Mobile Device Manufacturing (MDM) Regulations, 2021.

It is true that PMPMA has not been really vocal about the new mobile imports or used mobile imports (usually called “kit” in the market), it is also true that the government has effectively reduced the “free-ness” of the market before introducing the local assembling of mobile phones. If you have dealt with the DIRBS, you may already know that the custom duty randomly changes and suspectedly is some of the times subject to the whims and wishes of the valuator who sees your application. This makes people buying phones which are not assembled in Pakistan very confused, e.g. Apple, if you have a Mac desktop or MacBook laptop and you want to continue your iOS interface experience, iCloud experience or simply want to utilize the sync capability across devices, you are in for random struggles to get your iPhone working.

every time i look out for a nice looking picture of JDM in Pakistan, the most desirable ones are of Aqua 🙂