Swarajya Logo

Insta

Pakistan Resumes Postal Mail Services With India, Lifts Ban On Delivery Of Letters After Over Two Months 

Swarajya StaffNov 19, 2019, 03:03 PM | Updated 03:03 PM IST
An office of India Post (Representative Image) (Saumya Khandelwal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

An office of India Post (Representative Image) (Saumya Khandelwal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)


More than two months after unilaterally stopping postal services to India, Pakistan has resumed the mail services and lifted a ban on delivery of letters, ANI has reported quoting Pakistani Media.

According to the report, the parcel services, however, still remain banned.

The Pakistani government had unilaterally stopped postal services with India in August after New Delhi modified the Article 370 of the Constitution, stripping the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir of its special status, and bifurcated the state into two union territories.


"Every country works under the world postal union. But Pakistan is Pakistan. Pakistan has shut postal services (delivery of Indian letters) for the last two months,” Prasad said at an event in New Delhi.

"Pakistan has stopped Indian letters without any prior information or notice to our country," he added.

The minister said that the move by Pakistan is directly in contravention of the world postal union norms.

Join our WhatsApp channel - no spam, only sharp analysis