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79 responses to “The First Stamps of Pakistan”

1. Adil Najam says:

   December 9, 2006 at 2:34 am

   Bilal, thank you for this wonderful post and the many memories it evokes. I was a serious stamp collector for a while but more than that have been – and remain – a great stamps fan becasue the choices made in what we depict on our stamps are a great snapshot of the essence of nations… in Pakistan’s case, of our Pakistaniat. Have always thought that there is a great book waiting to be written by someone that tells Pakistan’s history – and our changing notions of Pakistaniat – in stamps….

   At one point I thought I would write that book ;-) Indeed, (thanks to the encouragement of Ahmad Hassan, then city editor at the now-defunt Daily Muslim) I was for a number of years the ‘stamps reviewer’ for that newspaper… yes, there is such a think… I wrote stamp reviews of new stamps… Actually I think that we have had some really nice stamps – both thematically and artistically. One of my favorite was the series of stamps on Independence Movement leaders that were released in the late 1980s…. but then there are so very many very memorable stamps…. we should have more on this topic.

2. Adil Najam says:

   December 9, 2006 at 1:27 am

   Sepoy… between you and me, I hope the dissertation is not on hold JUST becasue of the lack of a better scanned image of a stamp ;-)

3. Asma says:

   December 8, 2006 at 2:43 pm

   Now that’s a wonderful post … quite a detailed insight into Pakistani stamps … Thanks for this … I too had a bit of interest in Stamp collection in my childhood … but my sis used to collect I used to enjoy them :>

4. Deeda-i-Beena says:

   December 8, 2006 at 12:33 pm

   Thanks Bilal Zuberi for a great post.
   Brought plentiful nostalgia to a one-time stamp collector. I lost mine to the floods in Lahore.
   Another hobby of our boyhood was Autograph hunting.

   For some budding Internet researcher, may I add that UN has a Post Office and issues its own Postage stamps depicting countries,arts etc. It maybe worth some research. One Pakistani UN Staffmember,Rashid ud Din designed a number of the UN stamps. He also designed the cover of (first edition)of Marmaduke Pickethal’s translation of the Quraan.

5. Owais Mughal says:

   December 8, 2006 at 10:24 am

   images of stamps makes this post very colorful. Reading about the Dubai/Muscat postal services falling under Pakistan for a 6 month period is very interesting for me. ‘Scinde Dak’ piece is also very informative.

6. Pervaiz Munir Alvi says:

   December 8, 2006 at 9:06 am

   In forties and fifties there were no human images on stamps or for that matter on currency in Pakistan. The first set of stamps with a human face on them were those of Field Martial-President Mohammad Ayub Khan. Later came the images of the father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Also earlier stamps and currency notes had no printing in Bengali language Bangla. That also came much later. The 1948 stamp shown above in watermelon color was printed in various colors for other dimensions as well. Interesting.

7. Adnan Siddiqi says:

   December 8, 2006 at 1:39 am

   informative post and I thankyou for that. There were stamps after nuclear test as well,no?

8. sepoy says:

   December 8, 2006 at 12:52 am

   delightful post.
   i have a question: do you have this stamp, by any chance?
   
   (Details here)

   I am looking for a better scan of it.

   you shall help a fellow finish his dissertation.

   m