Vehicle manufacturers/assemblers in Pakistan are complying with just 18 out of 200 internationally recognized automotive safety standards, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Industry and Production was informed on Tuesday.
The remaining 182 standards are being entirely neglected, despite the fact that vehicle prices in Pakistan remain significantly higher than global benchmarks.
Committee members voiced serious alarm over the production of unsafe vehicles in the country and called for immediate and strict enforcement action against automakers failing to meet global safety protocols.
Committee members lamented that due to substandard safety and quality, Pakistan’s vehicles are unfit for export compared to India and China, which have become major exporters in the automobile sector.
The Secretary of Industries and Production informed the committee that the inclusion of two airbags remains standard in vehicles. However, committee chairman pointed out that even three prominent foreign manufacturers operating in Pakistan are not complying with local regulations.
One committee member argued against extending further leniency to companies that have operated in Pakistan for decades without aligning with safety standards and be punished accordingly.
Forget export . First produce for pakistan itself
Order these companies to manufacture cars locally . So far we get imported CBUs assembled. We need affordable cars. A car made in PKR should be bought
A 50 lac sedan is criminal
And yet their prices are skyrocketing and the local manufacturers are clamouring against any concessions for the import of used vehicles from abroad that are definitely much better in terms of safety and other features.
Not A surprize for me, whenever a new safety standard is approved and implemented in the world, a new generation of car is produced with that new safety standard implemented, but what happens to the machinery which was developed to create that old safety standard car? that machinery is used to create cars with old safety standards for countries like Pakistan where the cost of a life is much cheaper than the safety standards and Government does not care.
those 18 are also based on jugaad.
Japanese are corrupt. see honda, toyota and suzuki do business in Pakistan.