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Ghandhara Nissan (Ghandhara Automobiles) was incorporated in 1981 for the distribution of completely built-up (CBU) Nissan vehicles in Pakistan. In 1992, it became a publicly listed company on the Karachi Stock Exchange. Ghandhara Nissan has a technical assistance agreement with Nissan Motors and a joint venture agreement with Nissan Diesel for the progressive assembly of passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicles and heavy duty vehicles. Ghandhara Nissan's manufacturing and assembly plant which has a capacity of 6,000 cars per year, is located at Port Qasim, Karachi.
Ghandhara Nissan forms one of several companies of Bibojee Group. In 2016, Renault announced to start assembling cars in Pakistan by 2018 in collaboration with Ghandhara Nissan, and collaborated with new partner Al-Futtaim Group of United Arab Emirates (UAE) but shelved the project later on.
In March 2018, Nissan signed a manufacturing and licensing agreement with Ghandhara Nissan to begin local production of Datsun models but suspended talks later.
In February 2021, Ghandhara Nissan announced it would assemble Chery Tiggo vehicles in Pakistan.
On April 18, 2023, Ghandhara Nissan Limited changed its name to Ghandhara Automobiles Limited.
From Wikipedia’s article on Ghandhara Automobiles Limited, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4