Federal Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that an amount of Rs240 million would be refunded to passengers, who had booked tickets on different trains, from Wednesday if the decision of resumption of train service was not made by Tuesday.

“The Pakistan Railways is ready to run 30 trains in initial phase but the final decision to resume train service across the country will be made after a meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan. If the prime minister does not allow to resume the train services, the Pakistan Railways will start refunding tickets worth Rs240m it has sold to passengers in 15 days beginning from Wednesday,” he said while talking to journalists.

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