LAHORE: The railway workers on Tuesday called off their strike as the Ministry of Finance released a billion rupees for their salaries, DawnNews reported.

Train services were also restored after the strike came to an end.

The railway workers across the country were on a two-day strike, protesting against the nonpayment of salaries and pensions.

The employees had also halted the railway engines and all the train services had stopped in the country.

The Supreme Court took suo motu notice on the issue and the finance ministry urgently issued a billion rupees for the railway employees.

Although the strike is over, the head of the Railway Prem Union, Hafiz Salman Butt said that the strike is only temporarily over and if the salaries are again blocked in future, the workers will go on strike and the railway operations will once more come to a halt.

He further said that the general body of all railway unions is preparing recommendations to restore the railway department and they will soon pass them over to the government.