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Pakistan Post has decided to provide the cheap Internet services to the people in the post offices of all the major cities of the country. Sources told that after the successful provision of Internet service in the General Post Office of the capital and Lahore, Director General Pakistan Post, Maj. Gen. (Retd) Masood-ul-Hasan has decided to provide Internet services in all the post offices of the country located in the major cities. Sources said that in this regard a report has been presented to the federal secretary communication Iftikhar Rasheed, and initial work for initiating the service has been started. Initial work has been started for the provision of Internet services in the central directorate of the Pakistan Post, however, for the final approval the report has been presented to the minister for communication. Sources said, the Internet consumers would be facilitated with the free of cost Internet service to send Eid cards and e-mails to their relatives, however, the other usage of internet like chatting and site visiting, Rs. 15 per hour would be charged.

The Pakistan state postal services has issued redundancy notices to 6,000 employees, the Postmaster General Ghulam Punjtan Rizvi said Monday, sparking the threat of a strike by the postal union.

Termination notices have been served on those employees who had completed 20 or 25 years of services, or to those who had been reprimanded for disciplinary violations several times during their tenure, Rizvi told AFP.