Imagine a train driver stopping the journey midway to pick up groceries! Hilarious, right?
Well, it is true - a train driver from Pakistan?and his assistant have been suspended after they made an unscheduled stop to buy some?dahi. A video of the incident was posted on social media.
According to reports, the train was stopped near the Kanha railway station. It had started its journey from Lahore and was moving south towards Karachi.
In the now-viral video, the driver's assistant collects dahi from a street stall and gets back into the train. The person recording the incident says, "Look at his swag. He has stopped the train right in the middle and is buying dahi."
Watch the video here:
The person also says that this is the?condition of the Pakistan railway where a driver is able to stop the train to buy dahi.?
People on the internet have been questioning the authorities regarding the same.?
One user wrote,?"Dahi lene ke liye train rokta hai to mithai lane plane se jaoge?(He stopped train to buy yoghurt?and will use a plane to get dessert)."
Once the video was viral,?Pakistan Minister for Railways Azam Khan Swati ordered the Pakistan Railways Lahore administration to suspend driver Rana Mohammad Shehzad and his assistant Iftikhar Hussain,?Dawn?reported.
"I will not tolerate such events in the future and allow anyone to use national assets for personal use," the minister warned in a statement.
"When you stop a train in the middle (of the tracks) it becomes a safety issue. Safety is our priority. We cannot tolerate anything which compromises safety," Syed Ijaz-ul-Hassan Shah, a spokesman for the railway ministry, told?AFP.
A railway official told the news agency that such incidents are not uncommon in Pakistan.
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