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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Buying a Car in Pakistan - Tech Central Station
"Last week, the Pakistani government placed an order for a luxurious Mercedes Cardiac ambulance at a cost of more than 13 million rupees (about $225,000). The vehicle, first of its kind, will be used exclusively by a select group of VIP patients in the capital, Islamabad. No doubt the privileged few will include civil and military bureaucrats and so-called 'representatives of the people.' But, at the same time, a large number of taxpaying people eager to buy a car are being denied a fair deal. Over the past couple of years the local car industry, which suffered negative growth of 24 percent during 1999-2000 due to lax demand, has witnessed a steep rise in demand that it is unable to meet. Needless to say, local car manufacturers and vending industries are exploiting this gap between supply and demand to their maximum benefit, and to the detriment of the consumer."Such extravagance by our government machinery makes my blood boil. On a brighter note, the author of the article, Khalil Ahmad, runs a 'free-market think tank' in Lahore called Alternate Solutions Institute. In his own words, 'A. S. Institute aims at promoting the concept of a limited responsible government in Pakistan under the rule of law protecting life, liberty, and property of all of its individual citizens without any discrimination.' My thoughts exactly!
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