The Pakistan Post has received over 1,000 letters for International letters writing contest and the selection committee will soon finalise the letters and submit to Universal Postal Union (UPU).
Assistant Director International Post, Manzoor Hussain Khattak told APP here on Friday that the international letters writing contest titled 'Why tolerance and forbearance is compulsory for our world' will be held this year in Switzerland. He said that the main objective of the contest is to bring the attention of new generation towards writing letters.
The children with 15 years of age or less are eligible to participate in the contest and first three position holders in the country would get Rs 10,000, Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 cash prizes respectively. The participants have written the letters in Urdu and English languages and the selected letters from Pakistan will be sent to the Universal Postal Union (UPU).
The selected letters must reach the UPU International Bureau before April 30. Khattak said the first three position holders will receive gold, silver, and copper medals and Universal Postal Union (UPU) post tickets albums. Complete letters of the participants having name, father's name, age, class, picture, complete name of institute, address and telephone number, if any will be entertained, he added.
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