LAHORE: Railways authorities issued new instructions to put off booking of trains to October 20. A notification has been issued to all reservation offices and divisional commercial officers across country, while passengers who have booked various trains will be given full refunds. Similarly operations of several trains including Shalimar Express, Shah Hussain Express, Tezgam Express, Awam Express have been stopped. Notification says that railway authorities have instructed all reservation offices and divisional commercial officers across country to once again stop booking process of several trains between Lahore, Karachi, Quetta and Sukkur.

Railway authorities have directed reservation supervisors and commercial officers of all seven divisions of railways to give full refund to passengers who have booked. However, online and reservation offices will also be instructed to stop bookings. Regarding train operation, sources say that due to flood water in Karachi and Sukkur division, maintenance of track signals system and bridges is underway. At same time, there may be difficulties in starting train operation completely due to which train operation can be started only after position of track is completely fixed, sources said.

Published in The Daily National Courier, October, 04 2022

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