{"id":13911,"date":"2025-07-17T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13911"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:04:24","slug":"pr-hikes-passenger-fares-after-diesel-price-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=13911","title":{"rendered":"PR hikes passenger fares after diesel price surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pakistan Railways (PR) has increased passenger train fares by 2% following a rise in diesel prices. The freight sector has also seen adjustments, with coal rates up by 3% and fertiliser rates by 2%, officials confirmed, Express News reported.<\/p>\n<p>The price of diesel surged by Rs\u202f11.37 per litre, imposing an additional daily cost of Rs\u202f3.99\u202fmillion and a monthly burden of around Rs\u202f119.5\u202fmillion on the state-owned operator.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Railways consumes approximately 350,000 litres of diesel per day.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0PR is preparing to relaunch the refurbished Pak Business Express, a once-celebrated public-private partnership (PPP) train service that later collapsed due to operational and financial issues.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0PR gears up for new Business Express<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister is expected to inaugurate the revamped train in the coming days, promising upgraded coaches, better seating, Wi-Fi, and improved catering.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2012 under a PPP between Pakistan Railways and Four Brothers Group, the train was intended to modernise travel on the Lahore-Karachi route.<\/p>\n<p>The private partner managed onboard services while PR provided locomotives and track access. However, the venture faced internal resistance from the railway bureaucracy and financial mismanagement by the private firm.<\/p>\n<p>Payment defaults led to legal disputes, and by 2015, PR took full control, ending the partnership.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Railways (PR) has increased passenger train fares by 2% following a rise in diesel prices. The freight sector has also seen adjustments, with coal rates up by 3% and fertiliser rates by 2%, officials confirmed, Express News reported. The price of diesel surged by Rs\u202f11.37 per litre, imposing an additional daily cost of Rs\u202f3.99\u202fmillion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}