NAWABSHAH, Feb 28: The divisional superintendent, Pakistan Railways, Sukkur division, has said the Pakistan Railways is striving to provide maximum facilities to passengers.

He was speaking at a ceremony marking the inauguration of computerized online reservation office at the Nawabshah railway station on Monday evening. He said that the computerized office was set up in Nawabshah to provide computerized booking/reservation system through which passengers would be able to get bookings online and computerized tickets would be issued to them. He added that patrolling was being done on the tracks for making them safe.

The residents of Nawabshah demanded that the Karakoram Express make daily stops at the Nawabshah railway station.

Later, reservation supervisor, Abdul Wahid Burki told Dawn that the return journey reservation would be available from Nawabshah for any place. He said that the station had earned an amount of Rs60,000 during the last three days by computerized booking from other stations’ quotas only.

He said that the DCO, Sukkur, had assured that the shortage of reservation staff would end soon and a telephone connection would also be provided to the office.

The commercial officer, Sukkur division, Agha Waseem; the station master, Nawabshah, Mubeen Ahmed, and the reservation supervisor, computerized section, Abdul Wahid Burki, were also present on the occasion.

PTCL: Thousands of customers of PTCL’s V-wireless phone in Nawabshah, Daur, Sakrand, Naushahro Feroze, Moro and other adjoining areas suffered beause of suspension of service for about five hours on Tuesday.

The problem has become routine since the last few months due to the inefficiency of the officials concerned. Besides, poor connectivity and noisy channels were continuously disturbing customers.

On being contacted, a spokesman at the PTCL divisional office, Nawabshah, said that an optical fibre cable between Hala and Sekhat got damaged due to which the service had been disrupted. He said that the service would be restored within an hour.

However, the wireless phone service had not been restored till the filing of this report at 5:45pm.

PROTEST RALLY: Shia activists led by Syed Hasnain Shah, grandson of Syed Nawabshah, took out a protest rally on Tuesday against the publication of blasphemous cartoons and attack on the shrine of Imams in Iraq.

The rally started from the Murtazvi Imambargah and culminated at the Shiraz Chowk.

The protesters carrying banners and placards raised slogans against Europe and Israel.