Tag: Railway

Some unknown miscreants have blown up railway track in Dera Allah Yar on Friday luckily Bolan mail coming from Karachi to Quetta remained safe....

The top performers of the Pakistan Railways in different sports were awarded cash prizes at Railway Stadium on Monday. The Pakistan Railways Sports...

The Pakistan Railways (PR) is today (Saturday) opening a new railway station to facilitate passengers between Multan and Peeran Ghaib, Vehari. According to a PR...

Railway workers held a protest outside the press club and demanded the Pakistan Railways administration withdraw cases against the union office bearers. They alleged...

Three bogies of Khushal Khan Khattak Express were derailed in a bomb blast near Tangwani here on Tuesday but no casualty was reported. According to...

Train passengers at Sambrial Railway Station have to face many problems such as shelter, clean drinking water and substandard food stuff. Sambrial Railway Station is...

A railway track near Jacobabad Railway Station was damaged in a low-intensity bomb blast on Saturday. After the exploision, the train service was suspended. Quoting railways...

Former minister of state for railways has appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of gross violation...

Admitting the government’s failure, Minister for Railways Ghulam Ahmed Bilour on Friday said railways lands could not be retrieved from land grabbers in Karachi,...

JACOBABAD - At least one person was injured when a bomb planted on the railway track exploded and badly damaged the engine of Khushhal Khan Khattak express here in Thal area of Jacobabad on Wednesday.
According to Railway officials, Khushhal Khan Khatak Express was going from Karachi to Peshawar, near Goth Garhi Hassan Sarki when a bomb planted on railway track exploded with big bang injuring the driver and badly damaging the engine of the Khushhal Khan Khattak Express and the

KARACHI: A series of small bomb blasts on upcountry railway tracks in different places in Sindh disrupted train services from Karachi to other parts of the country on Friday morning.
Six low-intensity blasts in Karachi, Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Ghotki and Panu Aqil damaged the tracks and brought train services to a complete halt for many hours. The train services were restored on Friday evening after railway engineers finished repairs.
Pakistan Railways officials said that

KARACHI - The $1.58 billion Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project might be cancelled as the government is not taking any interest in solving various related issues for the past one year, sources have claimed. One such issue that needs to be handled immediately is the re-lending of funds by the Japanese government.
The government of Japan would invest $1.58 billion for reviving the KCR to mitigate the traffic problems in the city. These funds would be directly provided to the

LAHORE - Two protests were held by different sections of the Pakistan Railways (PR) on Saturday. The PR Workers' Union held their protest at the Railway Station. Around 250 to 300 people participated in the protest. Union General Secretary Zafar Ijaz Malik said that downsizing of the PR be stopped immediately and number of officers lessened.
"Problems are happening because there are too many higher officials and they are being paid too much for not doing anything. For this reason

LAHORE - Pakistan Railways (PR) employees on Wednesday brought out a rally from Railway Headquarter to Divisional Superintendent (DS) Lahore office to protest against the proposed downsizing and privatization of the department and blocked Allama Iqbal Road for some time by burning tyres.
The protesters chanted slogans against the railway administration and pledged that they will not let any body to privatize Pakistan Railways. They demanded of the government not to privatize the

LAHORE - Punjab will get a fifty percent share from the amount earned by Pakistan Railways property sale in the province. This was decided in the meeting of a special committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Pakistan railways (PR) held on Saturday at PR headquarters.
The committee directed all the provinces to clear off railways outstanding payments within 30 days. Railway authorities were directed to get the railway land vacated from illegal possession. The committee

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday sought a reply from three retired army generals over leasing Pakistan Railways land in Lahore for a meager sum, causing a loss of over Rs 25 billion to the government.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday also warned the generals that if they failed to reply, the allegations leveled against them would be considered to be correct. Former ISI chief Javed

ISLAMABAD - A joint constitutional petition challenging a lease agreement, involving 1,128 kanals of prime land of Pakistan Railways in Lahore city, executed between the government of Pakistan and a Malaysian consortium associated by two Pakistani's Lahore based companies- Husnain Construction Company (Pvt) Ltd and Unicon Consulting Service (Pvt) Ltd- on July 26, 2001 was filed before the Supreme Court on Friday.
The petition was filed by Ishaq Khan Khakwani, former MNA and Dr