By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Upon the special directives of the Divisional Superintendent, Railways, Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, a crackdown was carried out by the Divisional Commercial Officer (DCO), Nasir Nazeer, on vending stalls, restaurants and…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chief Executive Officer and Senior General Manager of Pakistan Railways, Nisar Ahmed Memon, and the Divisional Superintendent, Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, held an important meeting with freight transporters to resolve…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Mehran Express between Karachi and Mirpurkhas was handed over to RASS Logistics, under public-private partnership, on July 5. On this occasion, a grand ceremony was held at Karachi City Railway Station.…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Passenger safety remains the supreme priority of the Pakistan Railways and this was emphasized during recently conducted safety workshops in Karachi Division last month and lately in Sukkur Division during a…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chairman of the Pakistan Railways, Habib-ur-Rehman Gillani has reckoned that the 55-kilometre long dual-track freight corridor from Karachi Port Trust (KPT) to Marshalling Yard Pipri would drastically curtail traffic congestion…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Chief Executive Officer of the Pakistan Railways, Nisar Ahmad Memon, has pointed out that the frequency of train incidents could be drastically curtailed through frequent inspection of tracks and the…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Railways authorities, following a midnight land retrieval operation carried out at Auto Bhan Road in Hyderabad, successfully retrieved land measuring 2.88 kanals or 15,500 square feet where a petrol pump…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Much in line with the envisaged doubling of freight revenue by incumbent federal minister of Railways, the different freight-related parameters have shown upsurge during the last three months (February to April)…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Federal Minister for Railways, Muhammad Azam Khan Swati, has sought proposals for upgradation of Marshalling Yard in Pipri (MYP) and container loading facilities at Jumma Goth during his recent visit. “The…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Capacity building of its human resource has become a priority with Pakistan Railways these days. Under its approved Triple Helix Model Project, Pakistan Railway has gone into an understanding with Pak…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The newly appointed divisional superintendent of Karachi, Muhammad Hanif Gul, has pointed out that the completion of the KPT-Railways connectivity project would not only bring an economic boon for Pakistan Railways…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The newly appointed Divisional Superintendent Karachi Railway Division, Muhammad Hanif Gul has taken over the charge of Divisional Superintendent Karachi, replacing Arshad Salam Khattak who has been transferred to the Railways…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Federal Minister for Railways, Muhammad Azam Khan Swati, visited the Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT), a major container loading and unloading facility, under the auspices of the Dubai Port World…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Federal Minister for Railways, Muhammed Azam Khan Swati, has declared that annual freight revenue of Pakistan Railways will be doubled in few months from PKR 11 billion at present to…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) “The establishment of a marshalling yard in Wazir Mansion will prove immeasurably beneficial. The facility, if constructed, will be advantageous in terms of significantly enhancing port efficiency, drastically declining turnaround time…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) In a major land-retrieval operation, the Pakistan Railways got back the possession of a petrol pump’s land in Karachi as the licensee had been declared defaulter for a long time. The…
By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Pakistan Railways, in view of the public demand, has resumed the operations of the Karachi-Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas Mehran Express from City Railway station Karachi on December 20. Sabir Qaimkhani, a federal lawmaker from…