ISLAMABAD, Feb 23: The Pakistan Post Office has said its clients never complained that it withheld their money by not timely reconciling its accounts.

Clarifying Dawn’s February 21 report, it said that “all deposits collected by Pakistan Post make part of public exchequer and cannot be made part of postal revenue. Pakistan Post collects utility bills of all utility companies and there is no single complaint from the utility companies regarding timely transfers of funds.”

But it said: “It is a fact that to focus certain areas of reconciliation of accounts, a committee has been constituted by the Finance Division whose recommendations will be submitted to that division shortly”.

It insisted that "it is misleading to say anything before examination of the recommendations of the Committee".

Our reporter adds: Director General of Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) Awais Pirzada when contacted confirmed Dawn’s story and said that so far Pakistan Post had not reconciled the directorate’s accounts and blank certificates (stocks).

“We will certainly consider cancelling of agency functions of Pakistan Post if it does not reconcile its accounts and blank stocks,” Mr Pirzada said.

CDNS former director general Syed Mansoor Aqil when approached said that Dawn’s report was based on facts. He added that the working of Pakistan Post needed to be corrected.

“I had worked as the director general of CDNS for more than six years and I too faced a similar problem and the government should take notice of it", he said.