The Brits had, on the eve of partition of the sub us a very efficient railway system. Time was when all the VVIPs like the president and the governors used to travel inside the country in train for which a separate compartment was attached with the train billed as saloon in the railway’s parlance. That surely kept the railway officials on their toes and contributed a great deal in the efficacy of railway’ staff. Then came a time when that what to speak of others even the railway minister stopped travelling in trains.
The following facts are worth mentioning. The Brits had laid a railway track between Rawalpindi and Manzai touching South Waziristan connecting Kohat, Bannu, Lakki and Tank in the way. It could have been extended from Pezu to DIK thus providing a travelling facility to travelers from Kohat to DIK and vice versa. The same track could have been extended from Manzai to Quetta via Tanai also thus providing an alternative route to travellers from Kohat to Balochistan. What a pity that instead due to negligence of concerned railway staff the said track was uprooted.
There is a point in the allegation that since many notable owners of road transport have been moving in the corridors of power in every government worth its salt they saw to it that no improvement in the uplift of railway was made so that the road transport should always have an heyday. Small wonder they minted money though road transport business.
POST SCRIPT
The Gaza peace board masterminded by Trump is not going to deliver if it was not broad based .At the moment the American president is handpicking his blue eyed persons most of whom are pro Israel as its members.
There is a point in the allegation that if India was not checkmated from using water as strategic weapon it can put human lives to a big risk. India has no legal right whatsoever to suspend Sind Basin treaty unilaterally.
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