{"id":65609,"date":"2020-05-18T14:07:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T09:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=65609"},"modified":"2020-05-18T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T09:07:35","slug":"railways-to-refund-tickets-if-operations-remain-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-to-refund-tickets-if-operations-remain-suspended.html","title":{"rendered":"Railways to refund tickets if operations remain suspended: Minister PR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rawalpindi: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed on Sunday announced that if a decision for resuming the train service was not made by Tuesday (May 19), a total amount of PKR 240 million would be refunded to all the passengers with previously booked, unclaimed rides, according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-railways-finishes-95-percent-rehabilitation-restoration-sibbi-khost-track.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan Railways finishes 95% rehabilitation, restoration work of Sibbi-Khost track<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheikh Rasheed said that the Pakistan Railways (PR) has prepared an initial test plan to run 30 trains, but the decision will be finalised after a meeting with Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan. If the premier refused, the ticket-refund will be made in 15 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-directed-royal-palm-golf-country-club-projects-public-oriented.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Railways directed to make future Royal Palm Golf &amp; Country Club projects public-oriented<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The minister revealed that initially a single train \u2018Jaffer Express\u2019 would be run in Balochistan. He also said that the trains have been sanitised and special steps will be deployed to ensure strict adherence to the COVID-19 safety measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moreover, Rasheed also underlined that over 50% of the Railway\u2019s revenue is generated at the Eid holidays and that the department is still planning to pay salaries and pensions before Eid, despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-railways-utilise-vacant-land-generating-revenue.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">widening deficit.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rawalpindi: Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed on Sunday announced that if a decision for resuming the train service was not made by Tuesday (May 19), a total amount of PKR 240 million would be refunded to all the passengers with previously booked, unclaimed rides, according to news sources. Read: Pakistan Railways finishes 95% rehabilitation, restoration work of Sibbi-Khost track Sheikh Rasheed said that the Pakistan Railways (PR) has prepared an initial test plan to run 30 trains, but the decision will be finalised after a meeting with Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan. If the premier refused, the ticket-refund will be made in 15 days. Read: Railways directed to make future Royal Palm Golf &amp; Country Club projects public-oriented The minister revealed that initially a single train \u2018Jaffer Express\u2019 would be run in Balochistan. He also said that the trains have been sanitised and special steps will be deployed to ensure strict adherence to the COVID-19 safety measures. Moreover, Rasheed also underlined that over 50% of the Railway\u2019s revenue is generated at the Eid holidays and that the department is still planning to pay salaries and pensions before Eid, despite the widening deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":61922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15020],"tags":[27748,29472],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-65609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-social-developments","tag-pakistan-railways-pr","tag-railways-to-refund-tickets-if-operations-remain-suspended-minister-pr","cat-15020-id"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Railways to refund tickets if operations remain suspended - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sheikh Rasheed announced that if decision for resuming the train service was not made by Tuesday, PKR 240 million would be refunded for railway tickets\" \/>\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\/railways-to-refund-tickets-if-operations-remain-suspended.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Railways to refund tickets if operations remain suspended - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sheikh Rasheed announced that if decision for resuming the train service was not made by Tuesday, PKR 240 million would be refunded for railway tickets\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/railways-to-refund-tickets-if-operations-remain-suspended.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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