DS Railways launch tree plantation in Multan

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

The Divisional Superintendent Pakistan Railways, Multan Division, Shoaib Adil, launched the tree plantation drive in the Division by planting a tree. 

He directed all the Stations Masters in the Division to plant 50 plants each while the PWI was told to plant 2,000 trees. 

Following the directives of the Minister of Railways, the Divisional Superintendent started tree plantation campaign while planting trees at various stations during an inspection tour. 

Meanwhile the DS Railway Multan also carried out an inspection tour as part of his mission for safe train travel through the division. 

During inspection he inspected station buildings, met the concerned staff and made various queries to them besides checking the relevant records. He advised the field officers to give more time to their field visits instead of sitting in their offices. 

The DS was accompanied by DCO Hameedullah Lashari, DME Rana Imran, Divisional Engineer Abdul Razaq, SP Railway Amjad Manzoor and other officials.

Railways upgrades payroll system

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

Pakistan Railways, as part of its journey to modernization, has upgraded the payroll system of its employees who could now see the status of their salaries while sitting at home.

In this regard the Deputy Director IT, Railways Headquarters, Lahore, Ali Imran, visited Multan and briefed the railway officials and employees about the newly introduced system. 

Accompanied by Divisional Personnel Officer, Nabila Aslam, the DD IT Lahore, informed that the salary structure of all the railway staff has been centrally computerized and they can now go through their salary status even from their homes.

UN, global community urged to act

By Masood Sattar Khan
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

Pakistan's Ambassador to China, Moin-ul-Haque, has urged the international community for taking necessary to ease the suffering of Kashmiri people, a year after India abolished the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019. 

In a newspaper interview, he called global community to take actions to alleviate the suffering of the Kashmiri people. 

“The international community and the UN should ensure that India revokes its illegal actions taken on and after August 5, 2019,” he stated. 

"Pakistan expects the global community to play the role of honest broker in the dispute, and take concrete actions to ameliorate the sufferings of the Kashmiri people. We could only hope that the growing international condemnation would dissuade India's fascist religious-nationalist regime from their illegal acts," he added.

Chinese technicians arrive to accelerate power transmission project

By Masood Sattar Khan
(Pakistan News & Features Services)

The second batch comprising of 76 technicians from the China Electric Power Equipment and Technology Co. Ltd. (CET) has arrived Islamabad on a chartered flight to strengthen the staff capacity to expedite work on the ongoing Matiari-Lahore Transmission Line Project.  

The Matiari-Lahore DC Power Transmission Project is a priority undertaking of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework. 

The China Electric Power Equipment and Technology Co. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of State Grid Corporation of China, had started work on the project on December 1, 2018. At present, a total of 1,069 Chinese and 1,505 Pakistani personnel have been engaged in the project. 

It is the first DC power transmission project in Pakistan and the first local project open to foreign investment in power transmission and converting. 

The Chinese technicians have reached Islamabad over the weekend, according to a report published by China Economic Net (CEN). 

At the peak of COVID-19 in Pakistan, the State Grid Corporation of China effectively concentrated on its task by sending support technicians as well as most needed the anti-pandemic supplies to Pakistan through chartered flights. 

The first batch of 130 support technicians for the Matiari-Lahore DC Power Transmission Project had reached Pakistan on June 10. In the next phase, the State Grid will accelerate the construction of Matiari-Lahore DC Power Transmission Project to ensure that it would be put into operation on schedule.