Pakistan Railways ,
A nationally owned state-owned rail transport service of Pakistan, is headquartered in Lahore. It is administered by the federal government under the Ministry of Railways. PR provides an important mode of transport throughout Pakistan. It is commonly referred to as the "lifeline of the country" and aided in the mass movement of people and goods across Pakistan. The current chairman is Shahid Hussain Raja. The organization has gone bankrupt and has stopped all freight and many passenger services in a cost-cutting measure.
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Rail service in Pakistan is provided by the state-run Pakistan Railway, which is supervised by the Ministry of Railways. Pakistan Railways is an important mode of transport in Pakistan, which provides services for the movement of passengers and goods on a large scale. The railway network covers an area of 8,163 km of which 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) alone covers an area of 7,718 km and also includes 293 km of electrified track. Is. 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 in) narrow gauge track covers the remaining 445 km. 50% of the total income comes from passenger fares. During 1999-2000 it had gone up to Rs.4.8 billion. Pakistan Railways carries 65 million passengers annually and runs 228 mail, express and passenger trains daily. Pakistan Railways also runs special trains for various occasions. The freight business unit with 12,000 employees operates more than 200 freight stations on the railway system. The FBU operates at Karachi Port and Qasim Port as well as at various other bases in the system and is involved in trading in agricultural, industrial and imported commodities such as wheat, coal, manure, cement and sugar. earns income by About 39 percent of the income comes from the transportation of petroleum, 19 percent from the import of wheat, manures and rock phosphates. The remaining 42 per cent accrues through domestic traffic. The freight rate profile is based on the market trend of road transport, which is also a major competitor of rail transport.
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The Karachi Circular Railway, which began in the early 1940s, is the only running comprehensive transit system in Pakistan to date. In 1976, the process of starting work on an underground metro plant in Karachi was going on but all these plans have been delayed since then. Another proposal is for the Lahore Metro which is still being planned and is likely to be finished by 2020.
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Iran - A broad gauge railway line runs from Zahedan to and the standard gauge line connects with the rest of the Iranian rail system and terminates at Zahedan in Kerman in central Iran. On 18 May 2007, an MoU was signed by Pakistan and Iran for the rail corporation, under which the work of this line was to be completed by December 2008. Now that the rail system connects at Zahedan, the gauge splits between the standard gauge track of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railway and the broad gauge track of the Pakistan Railway.
Afghanistan - There is currently no rail route to Afghanistan because that country does not have a rail network, although Pakistan Rail has proposed to build an Afghan rail network in three phases. The first phase will span from to Spin Boldak in Afghanistan. In the second phase the line will be extended to and in the third phase it will eventually be connected toFrom there, the line will be extended to Khushka, . In the final phase, the 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) gauge was reduced to 1,520 mm. (4 feet 11 inches) would be connected to the Central Asian gauge. It is not clear where the gauge disconnection station will be. This proposed line passes through Dalbadin and Taftan to It will also be connected to the port town of K, thus connecting the port town to Central Asia.
via the Khunjerab Pass at an altitude of 4730 m above sea level , with a total distance of about 750 km, was proposed. The contracts were awarded for the feasibility study of the line.
Recently, Turkey - passenger rail service was proposed. . Meanwhile, a container train service was started between Islamabad and The first train carried 20 containers with a capacity of 750 would run 6,500 km (4,000 mi) from Islamabad to and Istanbul in two weeks' time. According to Railway Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, a passenger train will also be started after the trial of the container train service. It is also hoped that this route will eventually lead to a route to and and the movement of passengers.
