ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has extended the hearing of Railway Minister Sheikh Rasheed in the railway deficit case for two months.
SC Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed conducted the hearing of the case where Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed and Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar arrived before the court.
During the hearing, the CJP directed to make the Circular Railway project operational within three months. He also ordered the authorities to complete the project and sought help from Sindh government in this regard.
CJP Gulzar assigned the accused to make the Main Line (ML-1) project a functional programme within two years and the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) project in three months. To this Asad Umar requested that it was impossible in such a short period.
“Neither you are sleeping nor we so make people deliver,” CJP Gulzar remarked to Umar’s request. Complete the project along with ML-1. If the timeline would not be followed, consequences would be undesirable,” the CJP added.
Sheikh Rasheed supported the stance by saying that the Sindh government was cooperating in the completion of the ML-1project.
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