Logo
Logo

Train through Pakistan

Resplendent in his gleaming white uniform and peaked cap, 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 centre 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...

Read Full Story>>