Postal Life Insurance awaits Rs48b refund
The National Assembly Standing Committee on Privatization has directed the finance ministry to make a plan of returning Rs48 billion to Postal Life Insurance, as the company is struggling to meet its expenditures.
A meeting of the standing committee was held on Friday under the chair of Dr Farooq Sattar.
Finance ministry officials told the panel that the government had earmarked Rs14 billion over the last four financial years for the insurance firm. However, it has utilized only half the amount. The company officials told the committee that the organization
was established in 2021 on an emergency basis to get Pakistan's name removed from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)'s grey list.
Postal Life Insurance currently possesses Rs48 billion in funds but the amount is lying with the finance ministry, which is neither returning the amount nor paying interest, the company officials told the NA panel. They added that the company failed to pay its clients their insurance claims on time due to paucity of funds.
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