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Bilour pins Railways failure on National Logistic Cell
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Railways, Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, has pinned the failure of his department on National Logistic Cell (NLC).“Ministry of Defence owes Pakistan Railways big time for NLC is a defaulter”, the minister said while talking to British media.
In an interview to BBC Urdu, Bilour said not long ago railways was freighting about 68 percent of the total cargo transported in Pakistan, which reduced to only 28 percent, only because NLC poached our business.
To a question, he said his ministry never tolerated corruption, evident from the fact that at least thirteen hundred employees, who were found involved in a scam worth Rs8 billion, were sacked without any discrimination.
Going forward he credited President Zardari with saving Pakistan Railways from going bankrupt.
“Had the president not intervened the railroad department would have come to a grinding halt”, said he.
Speaking on the health of locomotives, which were failing now and then, he urged National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the higher judiciary to step in on the case of those 59 railway engines that were purchased during the tenure of then incumbent minister for railways Lt Gen Javaid Ashraf Qazi.
“The engines sourced from China in Musharraf-era were faulty, that’s why they break down so often”, said he.
Courtesy www.geo.tv