Railway to restart trains, improve condition of Dadu junction

Author: Imdad Ali Khushik

DADU: The closure of three passenger trains: Shahbaz Express, Qalander Express and local passenger train has affected local passangers. These trains used to stop at Dadu, Bhan Syedabad, Sehwan, Laky, Amry, Sunn,Jamshoro, Kotri, Radhan, Dokri and Larkana railway junctions in Sindh.

Only two passenger trains Khushal Khan Khttak and Bolan Mail are running on Kotri-Larkana railway track, but people have started to prefer travelling through the roads.

During a visit to railway junction Dadu, a passenger Ghulam Nabi complained that owing to wrong policies of railway department, the railway track Kotri-Dadu, Dadu-Larkana had been seriously affected.

He said that main trains were closed on this track and people had stopped traveling on trains.

He said that all railway stations in interior Sindh were without basic facilities.

“The Federal Railways Ministry is paying attention only on the rail network in Punjab,” he said.

Another passenger, Ali Muhammad, said that railway land had been occupied by influential persons in Dadu.

Published in Daily Times, December 19th 2017.

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