PML-N contains Shehbaz League and Nawaz League: Sheikh Rasheed

Dunya News

He said the rates of tickets were increased following a spike in prices of crude oil.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Following a new debate on the usage of word ‘selected’ in the National Assembly (NA) for the premier, Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has termed it “inappropriate” to call elected prime minister “a selected one.”

“Shehbaz Sharif’s and my mother party is the same…We have never changed our party,” he said, adding that there two parties in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).

“The one is Shehbaz League, and the other is Nawaz League…They don’t have the guts to hold a sit-in for 126 days,” he went on to say.

The railways minister said that PPP leader Khurshid Shah has said to make Jamiat Ulema-e Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman understand that an elected representative should not be called ‘selected’.

Furthermore, regarding the government’s reforms in the state institutions, Rasheed said the government was determined to improve all institutions, and an attempt has been made to reduce the deficit by Rs3 to 4 billion.

He said the rates of tickets were increased following a spike in prices of crude oil. “1.7 million liter of oil has been saved and 34 trains were made functional.”


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Moreover, he said Prime Minister Imran Khan will inaugurate the new Sir Syed Express train on July 3.

He said that risk of train derailment would not vanish until the commencement of ML One, and revealed that the track between Sukkur-Rohri “is in bad condition”.

Rasheed stated that 10 new trains, running in the country, have been generating profit.

In a press conference last week, Rashid had said that the incumbent government has promised to run 40 new trains.

He had said that PC 1 of ML One Project for extension and reconstruction work of main rail track in country has been submitted.

He had said that tenders of ML Two Project would be opened on June 30, while work has been initiated on tenders of ML Three Project as well.

The railways minister had said Nowshera-Turkai track was being opened while Lahore and Rawalpindi railway stations would also be upgraded.

He had said the load of freight trains would be enhanced by 75 percent and the modern technology was being used to improve Pakistan Railways.