He said that General Manager returned our resignations, which we handed over to him. Awan said that they had demanded the ministry to improve the whole infrastructure, holding it responsible for most of the accidents. Awan demanded the ministry to improve tracks system, rectify signals and replace the inoperative locomotives with the new ones immediately, considering them as the major reasons of train accidents.
"We will stop working immediately in case the authorities refuse to accept our demands," he maintained. Awan further said that the entire infrastructure of Pakistan Railway needed to be improved as the largest part of rail tracks have been expired and are dangerous for travelling.
He said that besides signals, more than 80 percent locomotives are out of order, as they have never been rectified. During travel, they usually stop working and caused creating nuisance for passengers. Instead of improving infrastructure, higher authorities were damaging the department because of their ill-planning. Akhtar said that the entire infrastructure was old as no government in the past took this issue seriously. He, however, said that the present government and administration were struggling to improve PR infrastructure.