Pakistan Railway’s own inquiry committee has confirmed that 60 percent of the Shalimar Express coaches involved in the latest accident did not have functioning brakes — exposing the Shalimar Express brakes issue as a systemic maintenance failure that runs far deeper than any single incident or individual negligence. The Shalimar Express brakes issue finding — that more than half of the passenger coaches on one of Pakistan’s oldest and most used long-distance trains were operating without working brake systems — has shocked passengers, transport safety advocates, and parliamentarians who are…
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