- Committee members require strict action against companies.
- Hafeezdin links the increase in traffic accidents to the improper safety of vehicles.
- The president notes that Pakistan cannot export vehicles due to low security.
Islamabad: Pakistani car manufacturers comply with only 18 of the 200 world security standards, entirely ignoring 182, although vehicles prices are higher than international levels, revealed officials at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Industry and Production.
Committee members have expressed serious concerns about the production of dangerous vehicles and have requested immediate and strict measures against companies that ignore world security standards, news reported.
Committee Chairman Syed Hafeezdin said the main traffic accidents take place in Pakistan and that vehicle manufacturing companies are incumbent upon safety standards in vehicles.
“Due to the drop in safety and vehicle quality standards, we are not even able to export vehicles, while in our neighborhood, India and China have become large vehicle exporters,” he added.
The secretary of industries and production informed the committee that the installation of two airbags in the cars continues to be provided. The chairman of the committee said that the three foreign companies do not comply with the rules.
The committee member, Muhammad Ali Sarfaraz, said that instead of giving companies that have installed factories in Pakistan for thirty to forty years and still do not meet security standards, measures should be taken against them.