{"id":58421,"date":"2019-12-08T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58421"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:56:09","slug":"freight-train-fares-reduced-10-rasheed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/freight-train-fares-reduced-10-rasheed.html","title":{"rendered":"Freight train fares reduced by 10%: Rasheed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Federal Minister for Pakistan Railways Sheikh Rasheed announced a 10% reduction in freight train fares, during a press conference on Thursday, according to news sources.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that the 1,872 kilometre-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/expansion-reconstruction-ml-1-tracks-summary-sent-approval.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Main Line One (ML-1) track from Karachi to Lahore <\/a>will be a historic project that will mark the 72-year history of the nation. Minister Rasheed announced that this project will create 100,000 new employment opportunities. He announced that a Railway Food Court will also be launched from December 25 as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-multan-division-assist-speedier-train-transportation-efforts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Railways&#8217; Multan division to assist speedier train transportation efforts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said that this new project will reduce the travel time from Lahore to Karachi to six hours, and to eight hours from Rawalpindi to Karachi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-improve-cargo-services-facilitate-businesses.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Railways to improve cargo services to facilitate businesses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to a question about the recent Tezgam Express incident, the minister revealed that the heirs of the deceased will be given PKR 1.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Federal Minister for Pakistan Railways Sheikh Rasheed announced a 10% reduction in freight train fares, during a press conference on Thursday, according to news sources. He also stated that the 1,872 kilometre-long Main Line One (ML-1) track from Karachi to Lahore will be a historic project that will mark the 72-year history of the nation. Minister Rasheed announced that this project will create 100,000 new employment opportunities. He announced that a Railway Food Court will also be launched from December 25 as well. Read:\u00a0Railways&#8217; Multan division to assist speedier train transportation efforts He said that this new project will reduce the travel time from Lahore to Karachi to six hours, and to eight hours from Rawalpindi to Karachi. Read:\u00a0Railways to improve cargo services to facilitate businesses In response to a question about the recent Tezgam Express incident, the minister revealed that the heirs of the deceased will be given PKR 1.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":45540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15016,15017],"tags":[14314],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-developments","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-details-on-freight-train-fares-reduced-by-10-rasheed","10":"cat-15016-id","11":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Freight train fares reduced by 10%: Rasheed - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The Federal Minister for Pakistan Railways Sheikh Rasheed announced a 10% reduction in freight train fares, during a press conference on Thursday,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/freight-train-fares-reduced-10-rasheed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Freight train fares reduced by 10%: Rasheed - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The Federal Minister for Pakistan Railways Sheikh Rasheed announced a 10% reduction in freight train fares, during a press conference on Thursday,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/freight-train-fares-reduced-10-rasheed.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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