After Decades of Neglect, Pakistan Rusts in Its Tracks
From the Blog pakistanisforpeace By Declan Walsh for The New York Times [image: Image] Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, jacket buttons tugging his plump girth, the stationmaster stood at the platform, waiting for a train that would never come. "Cutbacks," Nisar Ahmed Abro said with a resigned shrug. Ruk Station, in the center of Pakistan, is a dollhouse-pretty building, ringed by palm trees and rice paddies. Once, it stood at the junction of two great Pakistani rail lines: the Kandahar State Railway, which raced north through the desert to the Afghan border; and another that swept east to west, chaining cities from the Hindu Kush mountains to the Arabian Sea. Now it was a ghost station. No train had stopped at Ruk in six months, because of cost cutting at the state-owned rail servicepakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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