ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Railways has been earned around Rs12.276 billion fromthe freight trains during last two years, making a leap towardstransformation of the organization into a profitable entity.
“The freight train service has been suffered no loss during the last twoyears due to prudent policies introduced by the incumbent government,” anofficial in the Ministry of Railways told APP.
Giving detail of the earnings, he said the department has been generatedRs18.853 billion against the expenditures of Rs12.950 billion, posting aprofit of Rs5.903 billion during 2018-19.
In 2019-20, the official said Pakistan Railways earned Rs19.208 billionagainst the expenditures of worth Rs12.835 billion, saving a profit Rs6.373billion.
To a question, he said that at present as many as 18 trains wereoperational from Karachi to Hyderabad, while no train was operational fromKarachi to Mirpur Khas.
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He said the trains, plying between the two major cities of Sindh province,were included Shalimar Express, Hazara Express, Awam Express, Rehman BabaExpress, Pakistan Express, Allama lqbal Express, Karakoram Express, PakBusiness Express, Millat Express, Karachi Express, Tezgam, Bahauddin ZakriaExpress, Shah Hussain Express, Fareed Express, Sir Syed Express, GreenLine, Khyber Mail and Sukkur Express.
The official said there was no proposal under consideration for startingnew passenger train from Peshawar to Sargodha and Rawalpindi to Karachi atthe moment.
At present, he said the passenger trains, running betweenRawalpindi-Peshawar-Karachi, were included Khyber Mail, Pakistan Express,Tezgam, Awam Express, Rehman Baba Express, Sir Syed Express and HazaraExpress.
