Measures taken to modernise Pakistan Post: NA body informed
Pakistan Post Director General Arshad Khan informed the National Assembly Standing Committee on Communications that measures have been taken to transform Pakistan Post (PP) into a modern organisation through the use of information technology.
The NA committee meeting was held on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Brig (r) Zulfiqar Ahmad Dhillon.
The PP DG informed the committee that out of 85 general post offices (GPOs), 25 GPOs had been computerised while the rest would be computerised by June 2007.
Arshad Khan said that work on military pensions had been computerised in big cites including Rawalpindi, Jhelum, Sargodha and Lahore. He said the process was being presently computerised at 30 GPOs, covering 80 percent of the total military pensions. He said the Pakistan Postal Service had introduced a modernised delivery system to reduce delivery times.
Modernised mail and delivery systems have been arranged to ensure prompt delivery for customers, he added. PP will facilitate consumers in paying utility bills and traffic fines. A separate PIA ticket counterwill also be established at each GPO.
The PP DG informed the committee that inspection cells had been strengthened to avoid corruption and fraud. Committee members Tahir Shah, Syed Gulzar Sibtain, Akhtar Khan Kanju, Dr Rozina Tufail, Afsar Begum, Shahid Hussain Bhutto, Nawab Yousaf Talpur, Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Farooq Azam Malik also attended the meeting.
