ISLAMABAD: The local business community has urged the government to keep the public interest in view, while designing the new auto policy.
Islamabad Chamber of Small Traders Patron Shahid Rasheed Butt in a statement said that the government should discourage those manufacturers who are exploiting the masses. He said that local manufacturers have been receiving incentives while their output is unsatisfactory as far as the quality, safety, consumption, expansion, technology up-gradation and price of vehicles is concerned.
The quality of locally manufactured cars has gone down to an extent that some models of second-hand imported cars are costly in the market as compared to the new models of same cars being manufactured locally, he added.
He said that government should not ban import of used cars as it will end competition and hurt millions of people directly or indirectly associated with this business.
