Lahore:
The Minister of Railways Hanif Abbasi announced on Saturday compensation of 5.2 million rupees for their families, as well as railway jobs for their children.
He announced that rail police officers will now work in Pay Scale-7 and ASIS in Scale-11, bringing their wages and advantages in accordance with the Punjab police.
Abbasi said that despite many challenges, the government is committed to making the Pakistani railways profitable and effective. He noted that he was only in charge for 10 to 12 days, but that he has already put pressure for reforms.
Announcing the compensation package for the victims at a press conference in Lahore, Abbasi said: “The railway package we have announced is 5.2 million rupees each that we will give them (the families of the victims) and we will try that if they (the victims) have children, we will keep them in the service (like railway employees).”
He noted that such a high number of suicide bomber had never been seen before in Quetta, urging the whole nation to unite.
The minister accused Imran Khan’s PTI of receiving billions of complaints from India to the malicious Pakistani army.
Addressing a press conference during a visit to the headquarters of the Pakistani railways in the provincial capital of Punjab, Abbasi, which belongs to the PML-N in power, said that the “PTI brigade” and India have spread a venomous propaganda against the armed forces in the March 11 district of March.
“While the nation is in mourning of the tragedy of Jaffar Express, a political party used the same language as India,” said Hanif Abbasi on Saturday.
“The PTI brigade and the Indians have targeted the army. Billions of rupees are given to the PTI brigade to launch such targeted attacks,” he said.
According to the minister, those who flee and curse Pakistan are rewarded with millions “and even a house”. “The very people who bark against Pakistan are those that Pakistan has been recognized,” he added.
Abbasi said that the president of the PML-N, Nawaz Sharif, had been taken in prison several times, but his party has never cursed state institutions. He said that there is a certain group which, for power, spoke of bombing Pakistan and even to line up on the side of the enemy.
The chief of the PML-N said that Pakistan is the only nuclear power in the Muslim world and that this fact was disconcerting for a certain number of forces. He said that the enemies of the country were also disrupted by the Chinese-Pakistani Economic Corridor Project (CPEC).