Original Para (521 Words)
The Government of West Pakistan has done well to order an immediate high-level inquiry into the epidemic of accidents, which have marred rail travel in the Province during the past one month. The latest of these took place near Lahore early on Saturday morning when a parcel express rammed the rear of a stationary passenger train, killing a young Railway engineer and his orderly. It is natural that the people should be perturbed when every week brings news of one or two fresh accidents. We have frankly lost count of the number of mishaps, major and minor, which have tarnished the record of the PWR in recent weeks and caused the loss of many valuable lives. It may be, as the Railway authorities assert, that this tragic chain of accidents is merely coincidental. There do come periods in the life of man and human institutions when as if but Providence, one woe doth tread upon another’s heels. But that is neither a reason for despondency nor an excuse for complacent inaction. If anything, it calls for careful critical analysis so that the element of human error mixed up with what is purely fortuitous, can be detected, exposed and remedied for the future. The people are not prepared to accept the theory that the rush of recent accidents was beyond the PWR’s ability to prevent. They will be satisfied with nothing less than a probing inquiry into each of them, held under the personal supervision of the Railways Minister, followed by prompt action to rectify the shortcomings brought to light. Even if one ignores the accidents at level-crossings, where an outside agency was also involved, there have been too many instances of trains inexplicably jumping rails or colliding with one another where, clearly, the responsibility is wholly the PWR’s in such cases, the blame in all likelihood will be put on the subordinate operational staff, but as the Governor very rightly pointed out, the supervisory staff cannot escape responsibility, for it is their duty to ensure that there is no laxity at the lower levels. Apart from purely technical and administrative problems which will need sorting out to make rail travel safer, certain other issues of public importance will arise in the course of the inquiry for which a permanent and satisfactory solution must be found. One of these is the manning of level crossings; whatever the state of the PWR’s finances, something will have to be done to avoid accidents at such danger-points. Another weakness which has been laid bare is the inadequacy of relief arrangements; is scandalous that the injured should have to be unattended for hours after an accident—as happened in the case of the Badami Bagh collision. The Railways is a public utility. Its first responsibility is to the people. And easily the most important of its duties is to ensure the safety of the passengers. It is to be hoped that its present sad experience will lead to a general tightening up of discipline and efficiency so that the good name of the PWR can be retrieved and the people’s confidence in its efficiency fully restored.

Precise (176 Words)
In recent months, a series of railway accidents took places causing loss of many precious lives and record of PWR. The Railways authorities’ call these accidental, but peoples are worried and they wants a fair inquiry to find the real culprits, and strong action against them. Life of man and institutions come across such difficult time in life, but one bad news follows another is not acceptable, and needs to find real facts. Ignoring the accidents involving outside agency, the responsibility of PWR’s in other cases cannot be ignored. Despite the lower staff, the supervisory staff should also be responsible, for not maintaining strict compliance at the lower level. In addition to technical and administrative solution, other issues of public importance like operating of level crossing to deny accidents, relief arrangement on the spot to injured passengers should be permanently resolved. Being a public facility, the aim of the railways must be passengers and its safety. The current tragedies will hopefully leads to a professional PWR, in order to regain its reputation and trust of peoples.