KARACHI, Aug 3: Secretary/ Chairman Pakistan Railways, Lt-Gen Saeed-uz-Zafar visited the offices of the divisional superintendent railways here on Saturday with particular reference to freight operation.

During the visit, Gen Saeed was accompanied by divisional superintendent Abdul Wahab Awan and other officials.

Later he held a meeting in the D.S. chamber in which he discussed technical issues with particular reference to the recently received air-conditioned Chinese passenger coaches with D.S. Wahab Awan and deputy technical, Mir Mohammed Khaskheli.

He inquired about the details regarding the testing of the coaches in respect of their A.C. units being tested at the washing line of the Karachi cantonment Station.

He also discussed the trial run of Korakaram Express which would start operation from August 14, on the occasion of Independence Day. The train will be formally inaugurated by President Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi on August 13.

The railways is acquiring 175 air-conditioned coaches of high quality, 69 locomotives and 50,000 tons of rails for rehabilitation and upgradation of railway tracks for high-speed operation from China.—APP