09-19-2007, 03:24 PM
[center]<b><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Lahore-Khanewal railway track may not open this year]</span></b> <!--emo&:flush--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/Flush.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='Flush.gif' /><!--endemo-->[/center]
<b><i>* Red-tape blamed for delay in installation of signals</i></b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>ISLAMABAD : The rail track on Lahore-Khanewal section is set to be dualised by the year-end but trains will not run on it because the Pakistan Railways has yet to install signals on the track. The officials have blamed red-tapism for the delay. <!--emo&tupid--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pakee.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pakee.gif' /><!--endemo-->
According to the sources, the Ministry of Railways had decided to replace the obsolete infrastructure with state-of-the art-infrastructure to overcome the increasing number of rail accidents.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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