The three train accidents at Sarhad Railway Station on 13.7.2005, in which more than two hundred passengers were killed and many hundred were seriously injured and the estimated value of financial loss at around Rs twenty crore, is a clear proof of the inefficiency of the railway officers who enjoy sitting in their air-conditioned rooms and don't even know how to manage the railway department and how to serve the passengers efficiently.
They don't bother to check and redress the problems and complaints of the railway passengers. The railway officers know only one thing that is how to earn bribes and how to embezzle government funds. These railway officers fully know that action can be taken against them.
Yet in the recent accidents, they are not worried because they hope that nothing will be done against them in conducting an inquiry and taking any action against them, because the corrupt and non-sincere officers are protected and favoured by our government.
In the recent train accidents, the railway officers were at fault. They not only killed the passengers in the train accidents but kill them daily by providing them with poisonous beverages, sub-standard meals which even dogs wouldn't like to eat and by not providing drinking water for the passengers at all the railway stations every year, in the hot season.
The railway officers are a million times crueler than the president of America. They do not fear God and the AAZAB of ALLAH, which they will face in their graves very soon, this year 2005, for killing passengers.
THE REASONS FOR THE TRAIN ACCIDENTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
1) The double tracks from Khanewal up to Karachi are checked after the passing through of the train or at least thrice a day for the safe running of trains.
2) The present tracks are not fit for the running of trains at a speed of 50 miles per hour, (80 KM/Hr) but in spite of this, the trains are running at full speed, at 120 Km/Hr ie 75 miles per hour, on the said sub-standard tracks.
3) Two trains should not be released at one time from one station in the same direction. Only one train should be released between the two stations at a time. In the recent case, two trains were running at the same time between two stations which was the main cause of the accident.
4) There was a curve in the tracks at the northern side of the Sarhad station. The driver of the Tezgam had not decreased the speed of the train at such a curve and the Tezgam thus hit the turtled bogies of the ill-fated train.
5) There are thirteen trains passing on both sides in a duration of nine hours from 7.00 pm up to 4.00 am in the dead darkness of the night. There is no proper arrangement for the checking of tracks during the night, which can be done by driving a pilot engine during the night hours for checking the tracks.
I request the President of Pakistan to kindly terminate all the concerned railway officers at fault for the heavy financial loss. Stern action may also kindly be taken against the general manager railway for the sale of fake beverages and sub-standard meals, and the non-arrangement of drinking water for passengers during the hot season, every year.
Poisonous tea was served to 300 passengers of Tezgam at Rohri Railway Station, three years ago but no action took place.
The railway officers should not be exonerated from their serious faults at, any cost and such railway officers should be given 'Ibratnak' punishment so that other railway officers should learn a lesson. In addition, their cases be handed to the FIA and NAB for confiscation of illegal properties, gold bars, bank balances etc, earned by unfair means and corruption.
The cost of damages should be recovered from the railway officers by selling their properties. The facility of air-conditioners be removed from their offices. All free travelling passes should be cancelled. Their big bungalows/houses should be converted into small houses.
Fifty percent of the passengers are travelling free with the help of the corrupt officers/staff. Hence a special army team should check every train and take action against the railway staff on account of financial losses.
Every railway officer is corrupt they receive monthly bhatta from the railway contractors for selling poisonous meals and fake beverages and sub-standard eatable items.
I hope the President of Pakistan will take serious action against all irresponsible railway officers. At presently, 80 percent railway officers belong to depraved families. It is better to terminate all such officers and post good officers from good families. Without it, the railway system cannot ever improve.