PAKISTANI vehicle assemblers have exorbitantly increased prices owing to the rise in the value of the dollar. For example, the price for Toyota Altis Grande has been increased from Rs 2.4 million to Rs 2.9m in 2018. This shows that local input is insignificant and deletion percentage is only a bluf f.

Will the government please carry out a cost analysis of locally assembled low quality vehicles to ascertain whether we are saving forex by local assembly of vehicles or spending more forex on imports and profit remittance per unit than importing better quality vehicles? M. Akram Niazi Rawalpindi