Pakistan Railways runs an annual deficit of 55 billion rupees. Between 45% and 90% of the existing rail infrastructure is obsolete and unusable. The bridges are nearly a century old, the sleepers are collapsing, and operations are suspended nationwide for days at a time because the system can no longer function. Meanwhile, Pakistan announced CPEC […]
Author Archives: Dr Asim Farooq
The writer holds a PhD in Transportation Engineering and heads the Centre of Excellence in Transportation Engineering at the Pak-Austria Fachhochschule: Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur, Pakistan.