By Zahiruddin
CHITRAL: Six lower- grade employees of Pakistan Post are reportedly drawing their salaries from different post offices of Chitral district where they are posted three years ago but in practice, they are performing duties in their respective villages situated in the districts of Upper Dir, Lower Dir and Swat.
Sources told Dawn that all the six persons had been appointed as class-IV employees in Chitral neglecting the local candidates who had applied for the posts during the PML-N government.
They said that the transportation and delivery system of the department is badly affected due to the unavailability of mail runners whose job description was to convey the postages from one village to another on local basis.
They said that even after the change of the government, the employees could not be brought to Chitral to perform their duties there and one of the employees belongs to the native district of the federal minister of communication.
The employees included Muhammad Yaqub mail runner (MR) from Shoghor to Garam Chashma but currently working in Sheringal Upper Dir, Faisal Hayat M R from Booni to Istaru but working in Deolai Swat, Nisar Ahmed MR from Bang to Miragram but working in Lal Qila Lower Dir.
The others included Ali Khan MR from Pawer to Brep currently working in Munda Lower Dir, Abidul Haq MR Rayeen to Shagram but working in Mayar Lower Dir and a male peon Farooq at Booni post office but works in Upper Dir.
When the divisional superintendant of Pakistan Post at Chakdara, Iftikhar Ahmed, was contacted to know his version, he said that he had recently assumed the office and was not in knowledge of the anomaly but he would taken due action once he goes through the matter.
Post Master General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was not available to know his version despite repeated efforts. (Dawn)