{"id":310947,"date":"2023-02-01T07:49:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=310947"},"modified":"2023-02-01T07:49:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:49:34","slug":"punish-those-who-brought-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/punish-those-who-brought-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Punish those who brought destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saad Rafique says<br \/>\n LAHORE<br \/>\nFederal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique on Tuesday demanded punishment for \u201cthose who brought country to such destruction,\u201d adding that no political force had the capacity to criticize such elements. Addressing press talk after attending the inauguration ceremony of Railways\u2019 Automatic Booking and Travel Assistant App \u201cRaabta\u201d, the minister said his ministry was suffering huge financial losses. \u201cMain reason behind these losses is surging petroleum prices. We have faced a seven billion rupees\u2019 loss due to recent floods,\u201d the minister said.<br \/>\nThe Minister said Railways are in a dire need of at least 40 billion rupees, but he didn\u2019t expect federal government to release these funds. \u201cThere is immense [financial] pressure on federal government itself,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nSaad Rafique revealed that his department was facing issues in paying salaries and pensions of employees owing to financial crisis. However, the minister assured that sufficient steps were being taken to overcome crisis and payments of the employees of railways will be cleared by today (Wednesday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saad Rafique says LAHORE Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique on Tuesday demanded punishment for \u201cthose who brought country to such destruction,\u201d adding that no political force had the capacity to criticize such elements. Addressing press talk after attending the inauguration ceremony of Railways\u2019 Automatic Booking and Travel Assistant App \u201cRaabta\u201d, the minister said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-310947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punish those who brought destruction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/punish-those-who-brought-destruction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punish those who brought destruction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Saad Rafique says LAHORE Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique on Tuesday demanded punishment for \u201cthose who brought country to such destruction,\u201d adding that no political force had the capacity to criticize such elements. 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