YAMAHA ARE TO invest $150 million in motorcycle manufacturing plant in Pakistan.
President of Yamaha Takashi Kajikawa announced the move at the company’s headquarters at Hamamatsu.
The plant is to be established in National Industrial Park at Bin Qasim, Karachi.
Mr Kajikawa said the company in the first phase would produce around 22,000 motorcycles by 2012, with a view to manufacturing motorcycle engines in Pakistan by 2017.
‘The company intends to make Pakistan a base for exports to neighbouring Asian and African countries,’ said Kajikawa.
