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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of postage stamps of Pakistan from 1947 to 1966

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    Siddiqui Stamps Catalogue - Collect Pakistan Postage Stamps 2011 Edition available at www.pakistanphilately.com Editor: Akhtar ul Islam Siddiqui; Ron Doubleday and Usman Ali Isani, Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps and Postal Stationery 1947–1949, Karachi (1993).

  4. Pakistani art - Wikipedia

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    The Karachi School of Art, the first art institution in Karachi, was founded in 1964 by Rabia Zuberi. In the 21st century, graffiti started becoming popular in Pakistan, with the emergence of artists such as Sanki King, and Asim Butt. The latter also spearheaded Stuckism in Pakistan.

  5. List of Pakistani artists - Wikipedia

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    Jamal Shah (born 1956), actor, director, painter, and social worker. Anwar Shemza (1928–1985), artist, writer, printmaker. Shazia Sikander (born 1969), miniature artist. Tassaduq Sohail (1930–2017), painter and short story writer [1] Fakeero Solanki, sculptor. Raja Changez Sultan (born 1949), painter, poet.

  6. Sadequain - Wikipedia

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    Sadequain was born on 30 June 1930 [7] in Amroha, into a family of calligraphers. [8] He, along with his family members, had migrated to Pakistan during the 1947 partition, residing in the Nazimabad neighbourhood of Karachi. [9] In late 1940s he joined the Progressive Writers' and Artists Movement. His true talent was discovered by Huseyn ...

  7. Abdur Rahman Chughtai - Wikipedia

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    Abdur Rahman Chughtai. Abdur Rahman Chughtai (21 September 1894 – 17 January 1975) was a painter, artist, and intellectual from Pakistan, who created his own unique, distinctive painting style influenced by Mughal art, miniature painting, Art Nouveau and Islamic art traditions. He is considered to be 'the first significant modern Muslim ...

  8. List of people on the postage stamps of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Batik - Wikipedia

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    Batik [b] is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the whole cloth. [1] [4] [2] [5] [6] This technique originated from the island of Java, Indonesia. [3] Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of wax with a spouted tool called a canting, [c] or by printing the wax with a copper stamp called a cap.