Senate panel seeks briefing on railways’ outsourcing policies

Matters relating to outsourcing trains, servicing and adopting public-private partnersh­ips by Pakistan Railways were rai­sed during a meeting of the Sen­ate Standing Committee on Railways, which met in Islamabad on Tuesday. Senator Rubina Khalid, who join­­ed the committee as a member, qu­­estioned the procedure and rationale behind adopting models not widely practiced internationally. The committee asked the Min­is­try of Railways to provide a thorough briefing on its outsourcing pol­icies and practices in the next meeting. She also expressed concern over the closure of trains in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and called for uniform development of railway infrastructure across all provinces.