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White and blue Scinde Dawks. Postage stamps of Pakistan are those issued since Pakistan's independence in 1947. Pakistan Post has issued more than 600 sets and singles totalling more than 1300 stamps. Immediately after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the new Pakistan government was preoccupied with setting up the government so British ...
Three stamps were issued on this occasion These stamps were printed in vertical se-tanent strip of three stamps throughout the sheet. Value: 40p, 75p, Rs. 1.60 1979 –6 Pakistan Handicraft Series – 23 August 1979; Four stamps were issued on this occasion These stamps were printed in se-tanent Block of Four stamps throughout the sheet.
An 1866 stamp of Egypt. Carlo Meratti, an Italian, set up the first postal system in Egypt in 1821. This was a private enterprise which in 1842 was named "POSTA EUROPEA". The Egyptian Government, in 1857, sanctioned it to carry on all inland postal services. This concession was purchased by the Egyptian Government and on 1 January 1865 it took ...
However, this legislation was set to expire in April 2016. As a result, the Post Office retained one cent of the price change as a previously allotted adjustment for inflation, but the price of a first-class stamp became 47 cents: for the first time in 97 years (and for the fourth time in the agency's history) the price of a stamp decreased ...
The postage stamps and postal history of Palestine emerges from its geographic location as a crossroads amidst the empires of the ancient Near East, the Levant and the Middle East. Postal services in the region were first established in the Bronze Age, during the rule of Sargon of Akkad, and successive empires have established and operated a ...
The first items of postal stationery to be issued for the Sudan were postcards, post paid envelopes and letter sheets in 1887 and newspaper wrappers in 1898. These were produced by overprinting Egyptian postal stationery. Registration envelopes were first issued in 1908 and aerogrammes were first issued in 1951. [9] [10]
Nawab Salimullah 'Pioneers of Freedom' stamp series (1990) Nawab Sadeq Mohammad Khan V, ruler of Bahawalpur State (2004) Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk (1841-1917) 'Pioneers of Freedom' stamp series (1994) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948–97), Qawwal, Music Maestro, commemorative postage stamp issued in 1999.
5.Birth Anniversary of Muhammad Ali Habib,1 Stamps Rs.2,21 April 2000. 6.30 Years of institute of Cost & Management Accounts of Pakistan, 2 Stamps Rs.2, Rs.15, 23 June 2000. 7.Ahmad E.H.Jaffer,1 Stamps Rs.10, 9 August 2000. 8.Sarfroshane Tehreeke Pakistan, 4 Stamps Rs.5 Each, 9 August 2000.