LAHORE:
The Railroad Minister Hanif Abbasi announced on Saturday a compensation of RS5.2 million for their families, along with railways for their children.
He announced that the Railway Police agents will now operate on Payment Scale 7 and ASIS on the-11 scale, putting their salaries and benefits in line with the Punjab police.
Abbasi said that despite the numerous challenges, the government is committed to making Pakistan railways profitable and efficient. He pointed out that he has only been in charge for 10 to 12 days, but has already been pressing for the reforms.
When announcing the compensation package for the victims during a press conference in Lahore, Abbasi said: “The rail package that we have announced is RS5.2M each that we will give them (families of the victims) and we will try that if they (victims) have children, then we will continue in service. [as railway employees]”
He pointed out that he had never seen such a high amount of suicidal terrorists in Quetta, urging the entire nation to join.
The minister accused PTI de Imran Khan to receive billions of Rupias from India to the Malignan Army of Pakistan.
Going to a press conference during a visit to the headquarters of the Pakistan Railways in the provincial capital of Punjab, Abbasi, which belongs to the PML-N ruler, said that the “PTI” and India brigate spread a poisonous propaganda against the armed forces of March 11, kidnapping a Peshawar coach in the train of the terrorists in Balcohist.
“While the nation is afflicted by the tragedy of Jaffar Express, a political party has used the same language as India,” said Hanif Abbasi on Saturday.
“The PTI brigade and the Indians have attacked the army. Millions of rupees are taking place to the PTI brigade to launch such specific attacks,” he said.
According to the minister, those who flee and curse Pakistan are rewarded with millions “and even a house.” “The people who bark against Pakistan are the ones that Pakistan has recognized,” he added.
Abbasi said that the president of PML-N, Nawaz Sharif, confronted the prison several times, but his party never cursed state institutions. He said that there is a certain group that, for the sake of power, talked about bombing Pakistan and even put on the enemy’s side.
The PML-N leader said that Pakistan is the only nuclear energy in the Muslim world and this was disconcerting for a series of forces. He said that the enemies of the country were also disturbed by the project of the Chinese-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
