{"id":60676,"date":"2020-01-30T05:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T05:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=60676"},"modified":"2020-01-30T05:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T05:20:21","slug":"sc-seeks-railways-business-plan-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-seeks-railways-business-plan-in-two-weeks.html","title":{"rendered":"SC seeks Railways business plan in two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) on Tuesday ordered Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad to formulate and submit a comprehensive business plan for the Railways department within two weeks, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/leh-expressway-feature-circular-rail-track.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Leh Expressway to feature circular rail track (opens in a new tab)\">Leh Expressway to feature circular rail track<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\norder was given by a three-member bench of the SC, which comprised of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Sajjad Ali\nShah and Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan. The justices were presiding over a case\nregarding the disappointing recent performance of the Pakistan Railways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The apex court asked minister Ahmad to draft a plan that would help make the government department profitable. Moreover, the court also took the opportunity to enquire about the status of a project aimed at up-grading railway tracks across the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/work-on-ml-1-project-to-start-this-year-railways-ceo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Work on ML-1 project to start this year: Railways CEO (opens in a new tab)\">Work on ML-1 project to start this year: Railways CEO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said that he would\nhonour the SC\u2019s instructions and ensure that improvements are made to the\ncurrent state of affairs within the railways department. He also expressed his gratitude\nto the court for taking up the matter in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SC, while adjourning the hearing till February 12, also summoned the Federal Minister for Planning, Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives Asad Umar to explain the delay in tender issuance for the Main Line 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-railways-sent-ml-pc-i-for-approval.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"(ML-1) project (opens in a new tab)\">(ML-1) project<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-minister-announces-ml-1-project-finalisation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Railways minister announces ML-1 project finalisation (opens in a new tab)\">Railways minister announces ML-1 project finalisation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ML-1 is the railway line that\nis expected to connect Karachi and Peshawar, and is being developed as part of\nthe projects launched under the auspices of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor\n(CPEC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) on Tuesday ordered Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad to formulate and submit a comprehensive business plan for the Railways department within two weeks, according to news sources. Read: Leh Expressway to feature circular rail track The order was given by a three-member bench of the SC, which comprised of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Sajjad Ali Shah and Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan. The justices were presiding over a case regarding the disappointing recent performance of the Pakistan Railways. The apex court asked minister Ahmad to draft a plan that would help make the government department profitable. Moreover, the court also took the opportunity to enquire about the status of a project aimed at up-grading railway tracks across the country. Read: Work on ML-1 project to start this year: Railways CEO The minister said that he would honour the SC\u2019s instructions and ensure that improvements are made to the current state of affairs within the railways department. He also expressed his gratitude to the court for taking up the matter in the first place. The SC, while adjourning the hearing till February 12, also summoned the Federal Minister for Planning, Development,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":60677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[16922,2364,16923,1976],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"tag-details-on-sc-seeks-railways-business-plan-in-two-weeks","9":"tag-pakistan-railways","10":"tag-sheikh-rasheed","11":"tag-supreme-court","12":"cat-15015-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC seeks Railways business plan in two weeks - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Supreme Court has ordered Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad to submit a comprehensive business plan for the Railways department within two weeks\" \/>\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\/sc-seeks-railways-business-plan-in-two-weeks.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SC seeks Railways business plan in two weeks - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Supreme Court has ordered Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad to submit a comprehensive business plan for the Railways department within two weeks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sc-seeks-railways-business-plan-in-two-weeks.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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