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Print Print 2004-03-27

Car-makers' mafia

A very strange and dangerous logic has been given by the car manufacturers' mafia.
Published March 27, 2004

A very strange and dangerous logic has been given by the car manufacturers' mafia.
That just because the Prime Minister and his cabinet took the decision to allow used cars and the lowering of duty on car imports in a meeting, in which Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz was not present, so the cabinet decision is not valid.
Is the Prime Minister and his cabinet working under Shaukat Aziz, known as an imported minister and is also known to side with big business?
What does he know about the sufferings of the common man while sitting in airconditioned rooms in Islamabad.
As all reports indicate, the mafia of car manufacturers and the vendors, that is the PAMA and PAAPAM met the Finance Minister on March 10th and the deal was settled. The mafia won and the consumers lost.
The cabinet decision will be either reversed or made ineffective by the bureaucracy whose palms were, as usual, well-greased. So if you have to buy a car, pay two times the prices if you have ill-gotten wealth and wait 2 years to get the car, otherwise, pay extra and buy from the market.
How unfortunate that we, the people are at the mercy of the mafias. Some recent examples: The meat mafia, the milk mafia, the transporters mafia, the cement manufacturers mafia, the steel mafia, the wheat mafia etc etc Artificial shortages are first created.
The government functionaries call meetings for show. The mafia bribes the functionaries. Prices are increased and given legal cover.
The supply becomes normal. The people pay through their nose. It is shocking that even newspapers don't support the consumer and side with the mafia.
The only way to break the back of these blood thirsty mafias is to open the economy. Allow meat, milk, cement, steel, cars and, every thing else of use to the consumer, to be imported at reduced duty and support the people who are committing suicide because of poverty.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2004

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