KARACHI: Pakistan Railway (PR) increased fares of Green Line Train by 25 percent. Pakistan Railway has decided to restore Green Line Express train between Islamabad and Karachi with newly imported Chinese coaches from December 27. Train will consist of 2 AC parlor, 5 AC business, 6 AC standards and 4 to 5 economy class coaches. Economy class ticket of Green Line Train from Rawalpindi to Karachi has been increased to Rs 4,000, while AC standard ticker from Karachi to Rawalpindi has been set at Rs 8,000. Similarly, fare of business class from Karachi to Rawalpindi was increased to 10,000 and 9,500 from Lahore-Karachi.

Earlier, Khawaja Saad Rafique directed official concerned for reducing travel time of Green Line from Lahore to Karachi to less than 20 hours which would restore confidence of passengers in national railway.

Green Line Train was scheduled to start operations on December 20 last but due to some financial and other issues, it would now start operations from January 27.

Published in The Daily National Courier, January, 23 2023

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