Pakistan Post avoids privatisation
Pakistan Post will not be privatised but could become a corporation as the government looks to improve efficiency, minister for postal services Israrullah Zehri said. “We cannot put the future of 47,000 employees of the postal service at stake by privatising it,” he said in a panel interview with APP.
He said the Ministry would go for opting ways and means to improve the existing services besides adding new utilities. He said around 700 new post offices have been built to provide rural customers with modern postal services.
He said his Ministry will sign a MoU with a private airline for quick and speedy delivery of post and pouch matching the International standards.
The service, he said, would also improve the services at world level and will facilitate the Pakistani diaspora. In this regard negotiations are going on with a private company for hiring two specially designed airplanes.
Replying to a question about IT, he said that 116 post offices have been modernised including 81 GPOs in the country, while a project at a cost of Rs. 486m for counter automation at Pakistan Post has been planned and submitted to the Government.
