QUETTA, July 1: Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that work on replacing 300 kilometres narrow-gauge rail track between Bostan and Zhob with broad gauge will be taken up soon.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, he said the Rs8 billion project would be completed within three years. Later, the track would be linked with Dera Ismail Khan, he said.

He said that 10 railway bridges blown up by saboteurs last year along the Sibi-Khost railway section would be rebuilt by the Frontier Works Organisation at a cost of Rs206 million.

He said that a high-level meeting which he held in Quetta earlier in the day had decided to run a shuttle train service between Quetta and Sibi which would reduce the travel time by one hour. He said that a modern waiting room would be built at the Quetta railway station.—Correspondent