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Saturday, July 07, 2012
Railways won’t transport NATO supplies: ministerISLAMABAD: Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour said Pakistan Railways would not provide any transportation services to NATO as the organisaiton was not capable of meeting even the local transportation needs. A press statement issued on Friday said, “We are already short of locomotives to meet the local freight requirements and cannot give transportation facility to NATO.” He rejected a news item appearing in a section of the media regarding provision of three routes to transport NATO goods. “We have no such information and the news published in a section of the press is baseless and has no reality,” the minister added. He urged the media to avoid publishing any such news without confirmation and verification. Commenting on the future strategy, he said his ministry would spend around Rs 22.8 billion during the fiscal year 2012-13 to execute 37 projects for rehabilitation of infrastructure and revival of services, to make the organisation a profit-earning entity. staff report
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk