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The Ministry of Railways ((ウルドゥー語:وزارث ريلوے); reporting name: MoR) is a cabinet-level ministry of the Government of Pakistan. The ministry initially functioned as a subdivision of the Ministry of Communications and was eventually established as an autonomous ministry of the federal government in May 1974. Its primary purpose was to manage the state-owned rail transport services – the North Western Railway (later renamed Pakistan Western Railway in 1959, and then Pakistan Railways in 1974) and the Bengal-Assam Railway (later renamed Pakistan Eastern Railway in 1959). The ministry is also responsible for the planning, administration and establishment of passenger locomotive services throughout Pakistan while overseeing the government policies on regulation and development of the nationwide rail network and infrastructure. There are several industries and organisations that fall under the purview of the ministry which may or may not be entirely associated with the Pakistan Railways. The ministry has its headquarters at the Pakistan Secretariat in Islamabad where it's governed by the Federal Minister for Railways, who is required to be a member of parliament – an office currently occupied by Khawaja Saad Rafique as of June 2013. The federal minister is also accompanied by the Parliamentary Secretary for Railways, a bureaucratic officer tasked with managing the ministry's day-to-day operations – an office currently occupied by Parveen Agha as of January 2014. The parliamentary secretary is almost always the chairperson for the Pakistan Railways too. ==History== After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the country inherited the powerful North Western Railway in West Pakistan, which came with an expansive rail network and a well-developed infrastructure. Whereas, in East Pakistan, the Bengal-Assam Railway operated in a limited capacity. With the railways being the nation's only established and operational intercity public transport mode, its associated infrastructure "constituted the most valuable capital asset" of the newly founded nation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ministry of Railways (Pakistan)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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