National Assembly Standing Committee on Postal Services Wednesday expressed concerns over the services of the department, saying that it is very poor in comparison with private sector.
The committee met here at the Ministry of Postal Services, chaired by its chairman c. MNAs, Molvi Agha Muhammad, Muzafarul Mulk, Maulana Abdul Malik Wazir, Mrs Bushra Rehman, Ms Fouzia Ejaz Khan, Syed Alla-ud-Din and Dr. Nelson Azeem also attended the meeting.
The committee members said that the customers no more trust on the Pakistan Post due to poor services. The committee directed Pakistan Post officials to take steps to improve their service.
Postal Services Secretary Raja Ikram-ul-Haq said that the Postal Ministry had submitted a proposal to the cabinet for establishing the Courier Regulatory Authority to bring the private sector under legal authority.
Earlier, Pakistan Post Director General Syed Ghulam Panjtan Rizvi, Additional Director General (Operations) Fazli Sattar Khan and other senior officials briefed the committee about the performance of the organisation. They said that the department has taken various measures to streamline the Post office system on modern lines.
They said that keeping pace with the changing communication market, Postal services are increasingly using new communication and information technologies to move beyond what is traditionally regarded as their core postal business.
The committee members expressed displeasure over the absence of the federal minister for postal services from the meeting.
Children who get into bed with parents are slimmer: The children who get up in the night and sneak into bed with their parents may be healthier as a study found they were less likely to become overweight.
Disturbed sleep is associated with obesity because it interferes with hunger hormones but research conducted in Denmark suggested the opposite may be true for children, The Telegraph reported.
A study of 497 children between the ages of two and six found children who always stayed in their own beds were three times more likely to be overweight than children who got into bed with their parents every night.
Dr Nanna Olsen at the Research Unit for Dietary Studies, Institute of Preventive Medicine, at Copenhagen University Hospitals, said it might be because these children have a greater sense of security by cuddling up to their parents.
The findings were presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France. Dr Olsen said: “The results may suggest elements of parental social support or other types of positive psychosocial responses if being allowed to enter parents’ bed during night may protect against overweight, whereas types of negative psychosocial responses such as feelings of rejection when not being allowed to enter parents’ bed may lead to overweight.”
