ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafiq has confirmed that Pakistan Railways is not affected by the current petrol crisis in the country. He also claimed that railway has oil stock of 17 days to run the trains without any problem.
Saad Rafiq pointed out that when he took over the charge of the railway ministry there was a facility of keeping oil reserves only for a day but he enhanced the size of the inventory first to 14 days and then to 17 days.
He said the railways have made arrangements to transport 5,000 tonnes of furnace oil from Karachi to its depot Sher Shah Mehmood Kot in Multan.
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