The honourable Supreme Court has ordered to purchase diesel from petrol pumps for railway engines to run the trains if Pakistan Railways is unable to procure its oil supplies. It is a sorry state of matters national and crucial. One would never think that a state owned enterprise, which eats up huge subsidies annually from the government, would fall to this level without any justifiable reason.
Corruption, incompetence, nepotism and political favouritism have wreaked havoc with such an important source of commuting, cargo and travel. Trains really are the public’s favourite means of travel, but we somehow have managed to make them not worth the effort.
KAINAT FATIMA
Lahore
