PR outsources Awam Express management

RAWALPINDI:

Pakistan Railways has handed over the commercial management of the Awam Express to a private operator as part of its efforts to improve passenger services and expand public-private partnerships, Railways Minister Hanif Abbasi said on Monday.

He was speaking at a ceremony to inaugurate the outsourcing of the commercial management of the Peshawar-Karachi Awam Express to AA Enterprises at Rawalpindi Railway Station.

Abbasi said Pakistan Railways' revenue had increased from Rs88 billion to Rs115 billion, crossing the Rs100 billion mark for the first time.