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Postage stamps and postal history of Pakistan. 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 ...
1977 –1 Social Welfare & Rural Development Year – 14 April 1977 One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: 20 p 1977 –2 13th Anniversary of R.C.D. – 21 July 1977 Three stamps were issued on this occasion Value: 20 p, 65 p, 90 p 1977 –3 National Tree Plantation Campaign – 9 August 1977 One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: 20 p 1977 –4 U.N. Conference of Desertification ...
Manual passports typically contained the passport holder's personal information, a glued photograph, and various stamps. In the past, Pakistan used to provide a distinct Hajj passport exclusively for Pakistani nationals embarking on Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Depictions of Muhammad date back to the start of the tradition of Persian miniatures as illustrations in books. The illustrated book from the Persianate world (Warka and Gulshah, Topkapi Palace Library H. 841, attributed to Konya 1200–1250) contains the two earliest known Islamic depictions of Muhammad.
The Relics of Muhammad are a series of objects venerated in Islam that are associated with Muhammad. Islam has had a long history of relic veneration, especially of veneration of relics attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. [1] There exists historical evidence that some of the earliest Muslims practiced the veneration of relics, and the ...
Seal of Muhammad. The Seal of Muhammad (Turkish: Muhammed'in mührü, Arabic: ختم الرسول, romanized: KḪatm ar-Rasūl) [a] is one of the relics of Muhammad kept in the Topkapı Palace by the Ottoman Sultans as part of the Sacred Relics collection. The most popular design is allegedly the replica of a seal used by Muhammad on several ...
The disruption of governance in the late 1980s and early 1990s due to civil war and the rise of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, led to stopping of stamp issues from 1989 to 2001, although the postal service continued to exist it functioned only haphazardly using existing stamp supplies.
This is a list of postage stamps and souvenir sheets issued by Pakistan Post from 1947 to 1966.