Trains to Mianwali

Railway stations in the Mianwali district have been lying desolate since 2013. The five trains that ran between Lahore and Mari Indus, Peshawar and Multan, Rawalpindi and Multan, Sargodha and Mianwali, and Rawalpindi and Mari Indus, have since discontinued on the flimsy pretext that there were no engines to run them.

If the railways minister applies a bit of common sense, and cares to look around, he will see hundreds of steam engines with decades of life in them rotting away in Moghulpura and other workshops across the country. These engines can easily be overhauled and brought back into service. A huge stock of their spare parts is also lying around in these workshops. The simple mechanism of these engines means they can be easily repaired. If the minster asserts his will, ignoring the ifs and buts of the hardly honest railways engineers, the five trains for Mianwali and dozens for other destinations can easily be brought back on the tracks within a couple of months.

Munawar Ali Malik

Mianwali