Few months back they were talking about a bullet train... Govt puts out these extravagant white elephants every now and then to distract people from the fact that hardly anything has been done to imporve Paks aging Railway lines.
But we have miniature models of mono-rails that are bringing about a revolution in pakistan, and boom boom too! it also creates a taste of atta, and makes it dissapear too!
I just went through the list on indian railways accidents. a lot of them are sabotage , or bus/truck/carts hitting the train or land slide. They dont typically count as train accidents.
on top of that Indian railways run 15000 approx trains a day and runs on 64K Kms of track , otoh Pakistan railways has total track length of about 8K.
Any comparison has to keep the size difference in mind..
He does some good, but its usually right before a big election… My wife is from one of the Pindi areas where they usually vote Sheikh Rashid… She says he always makes dash to get things done when its election time…
Other then that, Railways are something he can afford to neglect as its harder to spot…