LAHORE – Railway Workshop Workers’ Union condemned the recent lack of diesel that had interrupted railway traffic especially from Quetta, Multan, and Rawalpindi and demanded government save the sector from a collapse by immediate transfer of funds to the railway sector in a meeting chaired by Jafar Khan on Thursday. The union said that Pakistan government had established a sixteen member board to represent thousands of workers. They said the board was unclear regarding the processes leading to improvement of the railways.
They said the board members had no association with the Pakistan Railways (PR) and it was vague as to how these members would be paid when PR was going through a financial crisis. They accused the government of favoritism while appointing top most posts. They said instead of devising a strategy to bring the sector out of crisis, the government was running further expenditures. “We will not allow the sector to be destroyed like this,” said the union, “PR benefits Pakistanis by providing cheap transport. It is unjust that it should be dealt with indifference by the government.”
