Gulraiz KhanUpdated 21 Feb, 2021 06:06pm
Standing at the corner of the General Post Office [GPO] at Mall Road, it’s hard to feel the seismic rumble under your feet. It’s either because you’re trying to find your bearings on this expansive, nondescript plaza where McLeod Road meets the Mall, or because the thick January smog is lingering all around you, and your laboured breath in your N-95 mask is fogging up your glasses.
Either way, you’re questioning your decision to be here at 9.30am on a Sunday morning, looking for a sign of the orange ‘elephant’ that has caused a tectonic shift in Lahore’s fabric. Its reverberations, every five minutes from 5.30am to 11.30pm, will continue to drastically transform Lahore, and the region, for generations to come.
Pakistan’s automotive industry is up for a paradigm shift. It has been raining SUVs since Kia-Lucky Motors launched Sportage. This was followed by Hyundai-Nishat’s Tucson, MG ZS and Proton X-70.
The ingress of a slew of compact SUVs into the market bridges the price gap between sedans like Civic, City and Corolla and presents an opportunity for the users of such cars to ameliorate their status. However, the dilemma with this changeover is its appeal to the elite. It portrays a perpetual lack of interest on the part of automobile producers in catering to the relatively less affluent socioeconomic class, which has been forced into using expensive, watered-down vehicles.
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Today, we are reminiscing about the national car of Pakistan. The one that most Pakistanis have driven in their lives. The Suzuki Mehran. It’s the first car of almost every Pakistani who shifted from a 2-wheeler to a 4-wheeler. Mehran came to the country in 1989 and served as an entry-level car for three decades.
The car was discontinued in 2019 but is still seen on the roads, and everyone still loves
“the boss”. Let’s get nostalgic and appreciate the beauty of Mehran with this owner’s review.
Purchase and Price
The owner purchased the brand new Suzuki Mehran VXR in 2011 for
While already struggling to rein in the prices of sugar, wheat flour, ghee/cooking oil, steel bars and cement, Prime Minister Imran Khan has now vowed to tackle the issue of high car prices and low auto-part localisation.
In the last week of 2020, the federal cabinet directed the Ministry of Industries and Production (MoIP) to look into the production capacity of existing carmakers that have failed to increase their output in line with market demand.
The cabinet directed the MoIP to look into the reasons as to why the foreign automobile manufacturers failed to indigenise car assembling through deletion programmes. The cabinet asked the ministry to make a presentation on this issue.
WATCH: Is that Imran Khan riding a rickshaw in Sialkot?
Video of Punjab city resident with uncanny resemblance to more youthful prime minister goes viral
A video of a Sialkot resident riding a rickshaw with an uncanny resemblance to a more youthful Imran Khan has gone viral.
“Please behold, there’s Imran Khan riding on a rickshaw in Sialkot,” the person recording the video can be heard jokingly saying in the background.
No Fear. No Protocol.
This is not the first time footage of the prime minister s dopplegasnger has gone viral as back in 2018 a video emerged on Twitter of one such lookalike.