Turkey evinces interest to help upgrade Pakistan Railways

[Yankee-stani]

Turkey has evinced interest to help upgrade Pakistan Railways and its operations.

The interest was expressed by eight member delegation of Turkish State Railway companies Talamsas and Raymisas during a meeting with Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmad in Islamabad on Monday.

In his remarks on the occasion, Sheikh Rashid Ahmad said Pakistan is upgrading its rail network with international partnership. He welcomed Turkish interest in Pakistan's Railways. He said all projects of Pakistan railways are open for Turkish companies and we are ready to work with them.

Sheikh Rashid said Pakistan will definitely benefit from the Turkish expertise and experience for upgradation of Risalpur Locomotive and Railway carriage factories.

The Railways Minister said the entire region could be connected through railways which will usher in a new era of development.

The Turkish delegation will visit different facilities of Pakistan Railways during its five day tour.

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[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Pleasant development

 

[xyxmt]

when will we do something our self, like we used to back in the 70s, and 80s

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Cooperation with Turkey is welcomed , the reason why we can't do any large projects is because in Pakistan there is a trend of doing business with small Engineering firms , who can do small scope work may be make a building or two , there is no massive project companies (Big Engineering Firms)

When country has a BIG company , they retain their experience and then 4-5 years later get to do a similar project across the country or world. The ideal company which should have matured into a big CORPORATION should have been Pakistan Steeles Mill but that did not happen

• Thus , Pakistan does not have that setup so outside help is needed now

For small stuff like wall cleaning / road making small job Pakistan's local companies can do

Just look at the Islamabad Airport project took 8-10 years to make



Pakistan do not have our own BIG Corporations

• We don't have our General Motors
• We don't have our Simens
• We don't have our Bombardier
• We don't have our Boeing
• We don't have our own Rafale
• We don't have our own Apple

 

[Syed1.]

Cooperation with Turkey is welcomed , the reason why we can't do any large projects is because in Pakistan there is a trend of doing business with small Engineering firms , who can do small scope work may be make a building or two , there is no massive project companies (Big Engineering Firms)

When country has a BIG company , they retain their experience and then 4-5 years later get to do a similar project across the country or world. The ideal company which should have matured into a big CORPORATION should have been Pakistan Steeles Mill but that did not happen

• Thus , Pakistan does not have that setup so outside help is needed now

For small stuff like wall cleaning / road making small job Pakistan's local companies can do

Just look at the Islamabad Airport project took 8-10 years to make



Pakistan do not have our own BIG Corporations

• We don't have our General Motors
• We don't have our Simens
• We don't have our Bombardier
• We don't have our Boeing
• We don't have our own Rafale
• We don't have our own Apple

We have Descon but Noony tunes and patwari media made a hoopla about them getting the dam contract. Descon with annual revenue of $1b and 15,000 employees definitely has the capabilities to take up large scale infrastructure projects.


The issue is with Pak governments as well, they give jobs to foreign companies rather than building inhouse capabilities. Why is it that Pakistani engineers go abroad and do commendable job for these engineering companies but cannot do the same in Pakistan?

 

[Lucky Breeze]

Ab health or education ki zarurat nahi rahi kya

 

[ziaulislam]

W

• We don't have our General Motors
• We don't have our Simens
• We don't have our Bombardier
• We don't have our Boeing
• We don't have our own Rafale
• We don't have our own Apple

we had some of those in 1960s, all of those were killed in 1970s by bhutto as 32 families controlled these companies and were getting very rich, people hated that so voted for bhutto who killed those companies by forcefully closing them through nationalization

 

[Syed1.]

Ab health or education ki zarurat nahi rahi kya

Also need to tackle stunted growth on war footing to prevent more people like you

 

[YeBeWarned]

need better trains .. i was extremely disappointed by Green Line Business class .

 

[jupiter2007]

I would partner with a Turkey and sell 51% Railway to them because Pakistani governments can’t make any money from government owned businesses.

 

[jupiter2007]

I would request PM to sell 51% of Railway, PIA and Steelmill to foreign investors.
Railway to Turkey
PIA to UAE and Singapore
Steel mill to Russia