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The First Postal Stamp of Pakistan was issued on 9th July, 1948, was designed by Abdul Rehman Cughtai and approved by Quaid-i-Azam on the occasion of the first Independence Day and was adjudged as one of the most beautiful stamps of the world. |
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There are numerous buildings in Pakistan but Assembly Hall, Karachi is the first building of which portrait appeared on the postal stamps of Pakistan. |
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The first commemorative postage stamp having the picture of tomb of alien muslim leader Kamal Ataturk of Turkey was printed in 1963. |
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A Verse of Allama Iqbal poetry was first time printed on the postal stamps of Pakistan on 21st April, 1958. |
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The Kurnafulli Paper Mill is the only industrial concern of which portrait was printed on the postal stamp of Pakistan for three times during the period of two years. |
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The first ever postal stamp of Pakistan, containing the Bengali words, was issued on 14th August, 1956. |
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The first ever apparent error in the postal stamps of Pakistan was appeared in 1961, when te name of Pakistan was erroneously written as "Shakistan" in Bengali language on the postal stamp, worth one paisa. |
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The postal stamp, containing the portrait of a person, was first time issued on 25th December, 1965 in Pakistan, containing the portrait of an "UNKNOWN SOLDIER". |
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The camel is the animal, whose portrait was printed first ever on the postal stamps of Pakistan. |
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The Pakistan Postal Service Department issued the first postal stamp about Quaid-e-Azam on his first death anniversary. |
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In 1966, first time Quaid-e-Azam portrait was printed on the Postal Stamp of Pakistan with the denomination of 15 and 50 Paisas. |
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