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Pakistan starts assembling Chinese passenger car (tribune, Aug 13, 2017)
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1480364/pakistan-starts-assembling-chinese-passenger-car/
“The first Chinese passenger car is now being produced in Pakistan, a market that is currently dominated by three Japanese carmakers.
Al-Haj Faw Motors (Private) Limited, a collaboration between Faw China and a commercial importer of heavy vehicles Al-Haj Motors, has started assembling Faw V2, a 1,300cc hatchback, at its assembly plant in Karachi.
The company was importing Completely Built Units (CBU) of V2 for the last two years to see market response. Now that it is satisfied with the response, it has decided to produce the car locally to compete with well-established Japanese brands.
“We want to become the export base of Faw for export of cars to Southeast Asia and African markets,” Al-Haj Faw Motors Managing Director Bilal Afridi said on Saturday at a ceremony organised at the company plant…”
Saudi forces seal off besieged eastern Shia town, says rights group (middleeasteye, Aug 13, 2017)
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-forces-seal-eastern-shiite-town-human-rights-watch-1764900072
“Saudi Arabia’s security forces have sealed off a Shia-majority town in the east of the Sunni-ruled kingdom, Human Rights Watch said Sunday, following months of unrest and clashes with police.
Saudi authorities last week said they seized control of a district of Awamiya, a town in the eastern Qatif region where protests have escalated into clashes with security forces in recent months.
HRW on Sunday said Saudi security forces had completely “surrounded and sealed off” Awamiya…”
And the inter Islam fighting is ratcheted up another notch, I doubt if any of us will live to see the end of this war, and many of us are going to live long lives.