Issued by India

Issued on Dec 31, 1966

Issued for : As a tribute to the glorious success of the Indian hockey team in the Fifth Asian Games at Bangkok the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department is to bring out a special commemorative stamp on the 31^st December, 1966.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Monastral Blue 

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Overall Size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms.

Printing Size : 3.56 X 2.54 cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Watermark : Printed on unwatermarked paper

Number Printed : 20,00,000

Number per issue sheet : 35

Printing Process : Photogravure

Designed and Printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• With India‘s victory over Pakistan in the Asian Games at Bangkok on the 19^th December, 1966 we have once again displayed to the world our supremacy in this great game of skill, courage, stamina, artistry and team-work. The capacity crowds which witnessed the hockey final at Bangkok were thrilled to watch the wonderful stick work of the Indian team. Our players displayed unmatched skill particularly in short-passing and dribbling. India eventually emerged in a blaze of glory when during the first half of extra time Balbir Singh (Railways) gave a pass to his inside right and receiving it back swooped into the circle and scored a goal through a brilliant angular shot after both the teams had battled for 70 minutes without results.
• By this resounding victory, India, the Olympic Champions, wrested the Asian hockey championship from Pakistan who won it in 1958 at Tokyo on the basis of the goal average and again at Djakarta four years later. It was in 1928 that India won the hockey title in the Olympic at Amsterdam by defeating Holland. Our latest success is in keeping with the high traditions set by the hockey wizard Dhyan Chand.
• The Indian victory in hockey at Bangkok has been the result of selfless team-work, great skill, courage, determination and good organisation of which the country is justly proud.

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Issued by Nepal

Issued on Dec 29, 1966

Issued by : His Majesty’s Government, Postal Services Department, Nepal Philatelic Bureau, Kathmandu

Stamp design by : S. D. ‘Ashanta’

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Colour : Blue gray

Size : New portrait size 3.3 cms x 2.46 cms.

Perforation : 13½ x 14

Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper on reels

Number : Half million

Sheet : 54 Stamps per issue sheet

Printing Process : Photogravure

Printed at : Jore Ganesh Press Pvt. Ltd., B.I.D., Balaju, Kathmandu

Name : Lekhnath Paudyal

Born on Dec, 1884 at Arghau Archale, Kaski, Nepal

Died on 1966

About : 

• After Bhanu Bhakta, ‘Kavisiromani‘ Lekhnath Paudyal occupies the next place of reverence in the history of Nepali literature. Born in December 1884, he started scribbling poems while he was in his early teens. As a matured and talented writer he served the national language continuously for five decades. It is Pt. Lekhnath who lifted Nepali poetry above simple versification and give it depth, rhythm and refinement. In fact, he was the pioneer of modernity in this field.

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Dec 25, 1966

Issued for : To commemorate the Birth Anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mahomed Ali Jinnah, the Pakistan Post Office is issuing two postage stamps of 15-Paisa and 50-Paisa denominations on December 25, 1966.

Design :
15 Paisa: The Quaid-i-Azam‘s portrait appears in black in the centre, printed by recess. The background and ornamental design is in orange, printed by Litho Offset. The words “Pakistan” in Urdu and Bengali appear in Blue at the bottom centre. The value ‘Paisa 15’ appears both at the right and left bottom corners in Blue. The date of anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam appears in Blue below the portrait. The words “Postage” and “Pakistan” in English appear in Blue at the right and left of the portrait respectively.

50 Paisa: The Quaid-i-Azam‘s portrait is in black, printed by recess. The patterns at the top left and bottom right corner of the stamp is in purple, printed by Litho Offset. The date of anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam appears at the top right hand corner in blue. The value ‘Paisa 50’ and the word ‘Postage’ appear at the bottom left corner in blue. The words ‘Pakistan‘ in Urdu, Bengali and English appear in reverse at the bottom right.

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Denomination : 15 & 50 Paisa

Colour :
15 Paisa – Orange, Blue and Black
50 Paisa – Purple, Blue and Black

Size of stamps : 49 x 30.5 m.m.

Size of prints : 46 x 27.5 m.m.

Perforation gauge : 13 x 13 (c)

Quantities Printed :
15 Paisa – 15,00,000
50 Paisa – 10,00,000

Number of stamps in each sheet : 50

Process of printing : Recess and Litho Offset

Printers : The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd., Karachi

Name : Mahomedali Jinnahbhai

Born on Dec 25, 1876 at Karachi, Bombay Presidency, British India

Died on Sep 11, 1948 at Karachi, Pakistan

About : 

• In the heart of old Karachi there stands an old building called Wazir Mansion, which has become a national shrine. Here, ninety years ago, was born a child who was to change the course of history in Asia and to fulfil the destiny of a hundred million Muslims by helping them to win a homeland for themselves.
• In this old fashioned three storeyed building lived Jinnah Poonja, a hide merchant, whose family had migrated from Kathiawar peninsula in India and made their home in the prosperous and growing town of Karachi. December 25, 1876, was a day of rejoicing in Wazir Mansion for on that day was born the first child of Jinnah Poonja, named Mahomed Ali.
• The child grew up to be a fair tall boy, and studied at various schools but longest at the Sind Madrasah High School, where he made his mark as a disciplined and serious student. Impressed by his talents and noticing his bent of mind, an English friend of the family persuaded Mahomed Ali‘s father to send him to England to study law after he had matriculated.
• The four years stay in England was to transform the young man. He passed his examinations in two years but had to remain in England for two more years before he was called to the bar at the age of twenty.
• Mahomed Ali Jinnah returned to India in 1896. By this time his mother was dead and his father had fallen on hard days. Full of ambition and lofty ideals, Jinnah could not adjust himself to the depressing surroundings. He moved to Bombay in 1897, where the High Court offered more scope for the flowering of his legal talent.
• When he was thirty and had made his fortune, Jinnah turned to active politics in 1906. The political tempo of India increased sharply with the victory of the Japanese over the Russians in 1905. The partition of Bengal in the same year led to violent protests by the Hindus, repression by the British, and safety measures by the Muslims, who decided to organize themselves under the banner of the Muslim League. Jinnah, however, was still inspired with liberal nationalism and joined the Congress.
• In 1909, Mahomed Ali Jinnah was elected by the Musalmans of Bombay Presidency as their representative to the Supreme Legislative Council. In 1913 he was specially nominated to the Council by the Viceroy for an extra term to enable him to introduce the famous Waqf Validating Bill – the first Bill to pass into legislation on the motion of a private member.
• Though Jinnah had been striving, with some other eminent leaders of goodwill, to promote unity between the Hindus and the Muslims, he was drawn closer to the Muslim League after the annulment of the partition of Bengal in 1911, for this event convinced the Muslims that they could not be protected by the British against the Hindus. However, when Jinnah was persuaded to attend the annual sessions of the Muslim League in 1911, 1912 and 1913, he strove to raise their ideals, and in 1913 was mainly instrumental in getting a resolution passed which declared attainment of self-government to be the ideal of the Muslim organisation. In that year too, he was persuaded by Maulana Mohammad Ali and Syed Wazir Hasan to enrol as a member of the League, but only after he had received solemn assurances that this would in no way imply even a shadow of disloyalty to the larger national cause to which his life was dedicated.
• In 1915, Jinnah was instrumental in persuading the League to hold its annual session at the same place as the Congress was meeting in Bombay. This was repeated in 1916, when the League held its session at Lucknow under the presidentship of Jinnah himself. Earlier he had given public utterance to his support for the demand of the Muslims for separate electorates, in an eminently reasonable speech while presiding over the 16^th Bombay Provincial Conference. At the 1916 session of the Congress, Jinnah helped in persuading the Congress to agree that “in certain provinces” in which the Muslims were in a minority, they should be guaranteed a proportion of seats in the future Legislative Council in excess of the number they could otherwise hope to win. This “Lucknow Pact” between the Congress and the League was the culmination of Jinnah‘s career as the “Ambassador of Unity” between the Hindus and the Muslims.
• After the World War ended in 1918, political activity became intense. Widespread agitation followed the passage of the Rowlatt Act, which gave power to the Government to try cases of sedition without a jury. Jinnah resigned from the Imperial Legislative Council in 1919 as a protest against the passage of this bill. Next month the tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh took place in Amritsar. In August, 1920, the Treaty of Sevres was signed by which the Allies decided to dismember the Ottoman Empire and to reduce the powers of the Caliph of Turkey. The Muslims of Indo-Pakistan Sub-continent were indignant, and the Congress joined with the Muslim League in launching a violent agitation against this step and against the new political reforms proposed under the Montague-Chelmsford proposals. Jinnah tried to dissuade the Muslims from the extremist course when he spoke at the Calcutta Session of the League in 1920. In December, he addressed the Congress Session at Nagpur in a similar effort to bring sanity into their counsels but he was silenced by the extremists. Jinnah resigned from the Congress, and the Home Rule League, and retired from practical politics during the next few troubled years – but he did not resign his membership of the Muslim League.
• In 1926 he was again elected to the Central Legislative Assembly. In 1928 he took part in the All Parties Conference in Calcutta at which the Nehru Report on the Simon Commission proposals was to be considered. He pleaded for amendments in the constitutional proposals, to safeguard the interests of the Muslims and to maintain Hindu-Muslim unity, but his suggestions fell on deaf ears. He was utterly disgusted with the intolerance of the Hindu politicians. In 1930 and 1931 he attended the Round Table Conference called by the British Government to arrive at some agreed solution of India‘s constitutional problems. When these also proved futile, as a result of Hindu intransigence, Jinnah decided to settle in England, away from the fury of Indian politics.
• In 1934 he returned from England to lead the Muslims again. He was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly by the Muslims of Bombay as an Independent member, even without his prior consent. Next year the Government of India Act of 1935 was passed. The Muslim League began preparations to fight the coming elections, and Jinnah was chosen President of the Central Election Board at the Muslim League Session of 1936 at Bombay. Jinnah made a clarion call to the Muslims, “organize yourself and play your part. The Hindus and the Muslims must be organized separately, and once they are organized, they will understand each other better”.
• In March 1940, the Muslim League held its session at Lahore in which the historic Pakistan Resolution was passed. Henceforth the political ideal of the Muslims of India was the attainment of a separate homeland where they could live according to their distinct way of life.
• In the years that followed Jinnah negotiated with the Cripps Mission on behalf of the Muslims. The result was a failure but it was the first step by the British to agree to the demand for a separate state for the Muslims. The Congress was alarmed and after the failure of the Cripps Mission, they launched the violent ‘Quit India‘ campaign against the British in 1942. All this was alien to Jinnah‘s nature, and he kept the Muslims clear of all these disturbances. Next he had to match his wits with Gandhi during the talks in 1944. When the European War ended in May 1945, the Congress leaders were freed from prison and the British Government again started negotiations for constitutional changes in India. First came the Wavell Plan, then the more important Cabinet Mission Plan. Before the latter, an important event was the new elections held in India in January 1946.
• The victory of the Muslim League at the polls was overwhelming both in the provinces and in the Central Assembly. It was a measure of the Quaid‘s glorious success in his mission of organizing the Indian Muslims. Well could he declare “No power on earth can prevent Pakistan now.”
• In March 1946, the Cabinet Mission came to India with new proposals, offering to arrange the provinces into three groups, to satisfy Muslim demands partially, for though they were offered internal autonomy, they were to be part of one state with defence, foreign affairs and communications as central subjects. The Quaid went along with the proposals some way but the Congress intransigence wrecked the negotiations, for the Hindus did not appreciate the sacrifice the Muslims were making by scaling down their demands. Still, the Muslims were steadily and surely coming nearer the achievement of their ideal under Jinnah‘s unerring leadership. When the Government decided to hold elections for a new Constituent Assembly, the League’s stand of being the sole representative of the Muslims was vindicated, for it won 76 out of 79 Muslim seats. In October 1946, the League joined informing the Interim Government under Lord Wavell. But there was no real co-operation. The Quaid ordered that no Muslim was to take part in the Constituent Assembly due to sit from December 9, 1946. Feelings in the whole of the sub-continent were worked up and the Calcutta riots were like the fuse that started the great explosion. After one last effort to reconcile the Muslims and the Hindus, Mr. Attlee, the British Premier, announced in February 1947, that they would grant independence to India, not later than June 1948. Viscount Mountbatten was sent out as Viceroy to negotiate the manner of handing over power. He acted with amazing swiftness, and on June 2, 1947, announced that India would be partitioned. Thus two new Pakistan and India States were created on August 14, 1947. Quaid-i-Azam‘s leadership and the struggle of the Muslim nation at last bore fruit – earlier than anyone expected.
• The Quaid was seventy one when Pakistan came into being. He was spared by God only for one year to set the ship of the new state safely on its keel. The motto of “Unity, Faith and Discipline” which he gave to the new born nation infused a new spirit into the people of Pakistan. He died on September 11, 1948, mourned by a grateful nation, but as one of the Great Immortals of history.
• With the compliments of the Director-General, Pakistan Post Office, Karachi.

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Issued by India

Issued on Dec 12, 1966

Issued for : On the occasion of the observance of the Family Planning Week, the P & T Department is bringing out a special postage stamp on the 12^th December, 1966.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Dark Brown 

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Overall Size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms.

Printing Size : 3.56 X 2.54 cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Watermark : Printed on unwatermarked paper

Number Printed : 25,00,000

Number per issue Sheet : 35

Printing Process : Photogravure

Designed and Printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• The rapid growth of population is a world problem of the utmost gravity. In India, where inadequate food supplies are a serious threat to development, the result of the “population explosion” can be especially acute. This can whittle down all our efforts towards betterment and be a source of ill health and unhappiness to the individual families. In mid-1966, India‘s population passed the 500 million mark, and it is growing at the rate of more than 12 million a year. India‘s population is the second largest in the world; it comprises 14% of the world’s population; yet, this population must be supported on 2.4% of the world’s land area.
• The Government of India recognised the threat of overpopulation and launched the world’s first official Family Planning Programme in 1952. Together with the need for increased food production, Family Planning took its place at the very centre of the development effort. A nationwide organisation is being built, and large sums have been allocated to this high priority programme. Every proved contraceptive method is being promoted. A widespread mass education programme is underway. Training and research centres in all aspects of the programme have been established. The overall objective of the programme is to achieve a reduction in the country’s annual birth rate from 40 per thousand to 25, in the next 10 years. The cooperation and active participation of all the people in this National Task is of the utmost importance.

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Dec 3, 1966

Issued for : To commemorate the establishment of the Institute of Health and Tibbi Research and the laying of its foundation stone by the President of Pakistan, Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan, N.Pk., H.J., on December 3, 1966, a stamp bearing the portrait of Hakim Ibn-e-Sina, who was the founder of the Greco-Arab School of Medicine (Tibb-e-Unani) is being issued by the Pakistan Post Office.

Design : The portrait shows the celebrated herbal physician of East, Hakim Ibn-e-Sina, engrossed in preparing notes for his famous book Canon of Medicine. The word “Pakistan” appears at the left side of the stamp in Bengali, Urdu and English. The word “Postage” appears at the right side of the stamp in English. The value, Paisa 15 appears at the top right. The name of the commemorated Physician Hakim Ibn-e-Sina together with the dates of his life span (980-1037) is shown beneath the portrait. The words “Health from Herbs” appear centrally at the foot of the stamp.

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Colour : Sepia and Green

Size of stamp : 30.5 x 48 mm.

Size of print : 27.5 x 45 mm.

Perforation gauge : 13½ x 13 (c)

Quantity printed : 10,00,000

Number of stamps in each sheet : 50

Process of Printing : Lithography

Printers : The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd., Karachi

Name : Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā

Born on Aug 22, 980 at Afshona, Peshkunskiy, Bukhara, Samanid Empire [now in Uzbekistan]

Died on Jun 21, 1037 at Hamadān, Kakuyid Emirate [now in Iran]

About : 

• Tibb-e-Unani is the continuation and revivification of Greek (Ionian or Yunani) medicine by the Arabs who infused life and vigour, empiricism and rationality to make it a scientific system of medicine. Tibb has been dynamic, absorbing within it everything that was of proven value. This process of synthesis and fusion of all that was good was started in the 10^th century A.D. by pioneers of Tibb like Hakim Ibn–e–Sina, Al Rhazi, Averroes, Jabir Ibn–e–Hayyan, Albucasis, Alkindi, Mesue Senior and other personalities. They based the system on the Hippocratic humoral theory – that every person has a unique humoural constitution which represents his healthy state. Any change in this brings about a change in his state of health. Great reliance is placed on the power of self-preservation and adjustment (viz. Medicatrix naturae) which strives to restore any disturbance within the limits prescribed by the constitution of the individual.
• Hakim Ibn-e-Sina (Avicenna) is the greatest physician and philosopher that the Arab culture ever produced. His contribution to medicine is unparalleled in history. His best known work is the Canon of Medicine, an encyclopaedia and text book of medicine in the Universities of Europe and the Orient for hundreds of years. Currently in some European and Asian countries, research and investigation into the theories, therapeutics, medicines and formulae of the Canon is being carried on. It is his likeness that adorns the diploma of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
• The actual treatment of disease in Tibb-e-Unani is by regimen, drugs and operative interference. Drugs are mainly and chiefly herbal in nature. They are prepared by the Greco-Arab system which is “Polypharmaceutic” in the sense that it is based on what has now come to be known as “combination therapy”. One of the great intuitive arts is that of herbs. For thousands and thousands of years man has been accumulating a certain kind of very effective wisdom about the desirable effect of green things – things not usually considered food – upon undesirable conditions of his body. These are the green medicines of nature. This lore constituted all the medical and therapeutic wisdom man had, until knowledge of chemical reaction began to creep in, and surgical techniques were established in snail like fashion. But primarily it is the herb that cures man’s cough, reduce his fever, relieves his aching back and quiets his nerves. It is too well known that the whole herb heels; synthesis may destroy. Today more and more people are returning to the natural medicines of our forbears, to the simple herbs “which were given to the healing of Nations”. The pharmacopoeia of today is merely the great grand-child of the herbal of the sixteenth century and that in turn is but the accumulation of thousands of years of native, pragmatic wisdom about the values of herbs. Some of the miracle-cure-herbs of today are not discoveries but recoveries of wisdom that our forefathers had for thousands of years e.g. saffron, ephedrine, etc. Our country is also very rich in medicinal herbs and plants and health can be found in them for diseases of body and mind.
• Tibb-e-Unani which reached its zenith in the 13^th century has to be resuscitated and revived as it is generally believed that it is quite capable of serving the cause of national health. Temperamentally, constitutionally and economically, we are better suited and adjusted to Unani medicine. However, there is no question of the negation of what is good in modern medicine and surgery. The correct solution of our health problems, therefore, lies in starting at once investigation and research on the various methods of treatment and to adopt everything of proven value, with the help of modern techniques and procedures developed in the course of the last 2 or 3 decades and thus to revive Tibb. The Institute of Health and Tibbi Research has, therefore, been visualised by Hakim Mohammad Said, to serve this purpose. The aims and objects of the Institute would be :–
  • (1) to foster and promote health education and preventive measures against disease;
  • (2) to promote and provide facilities of medical aid and treatment;
  • (3) to engage in scientific appraisal of the principles and practice of the various systems of medicine and therapy;
  • (4) to establish and administer research centres for carrying out systematic interdisciplinary studies in drugs of vegetable, animal and mineral origin.
• The scheme includes (1) a fully equipped and staffed hospital through which medical advice and aid will be provided to the ailing people; (2) a Central Drugs Research Centre for carrying out research in all types of medicinal herbs and plants and would include chemical, biochemical, pharmacological, physiological and pharmacolognosical research; (3) a College of Medicine devoted to the study of different systems of Medicine; (4) a fully equipped Library having about 5 lakhs of books on Health Education, Health and Hygiene Medicine (ancient and modern) Medical Research, Drug Research and plants and herbs.
• With the compliments of The Director-General, Pakistan Post Office, Karachi.

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Nov 29, 1966

Design : The President‘s portrait appears on the right hand side. Secretariat Building is shown in a window shaped aperture on the left of the stamp. The National Flag in the national colouring is shown in an unfurled aspect, from left to right above the Secretariat Building in Brick Red against Bluish sky background. The word “Pakistan” in English, Urdu and Bengali appears in reverse in the lower panel. Denomination is shown at bottom left hand corner of the window shaped aperture. The word “Islamabad” is printed in the foreground below the Secretariat Building. In 15 Paisa stamp the President is shown wearing Field Marshal‘s uniform in sepia while in the 50 Paisa stamp the President is in civilian dress in black.

Type : Stamps, Postal Used

Denomination : 15 & 50 Paisa

Colour :
15 Paisa : Sepia, Brick Red, Green and Blue
50 Paisa : Black, Brick Red, Green and Blue

Size of Stamps : 30.5 x 60 mm

Size of Prints : 27.5 x 57 mm

Perforation Gauge : 13 x 13 (c)

Quantity Printed :
15 Paisa : 15,00,000
50 Paisa : 10,00,000

Number of Stamps in each sheet : 50

Process of Printing : Litho

Printers : The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd., Karachi

About : 

• Islamabad, having the most agreeable year-round climate and four definite seasons, has been located in proximity to the existing Rawalpindi city with all its services and facilities. Rawalpindi is on the main line of the Pakistan Western Railway. It is also serviced by modern airlines.
• Actual construction in Islamabad started in October, 1961 on the ground where one can today see nicely laid-out neighbourhoods functioning as fully developed urban units. Some of the Ministers of the Central Government have shifted and started working at the new Capital which is now a humming metropolis of over 20,000 population.
• The urbanisation of Islamabad is based on the principle of Dynapolis. Each sector is a self-contained township satisfying all needs. There are schools separate for boys and girls, markets, shops, mosques, colleges, dispensaries, post and telegraph offices, telephone exchange, bank, police station, bus-stands, cinemas, in each sector.
• A modern city has to be so designed as to ensure smooth and swift circulation. The road network thoughtfully provides suitable communication system to serve efficiently all sections of the city as it grows and develops. The network consists of varied types of roads designed for different functions. It includes highways, principal and major roads, vehicular and feeder roads, pedestrian streets, foot-paths and green walk ways. Enough space has been provided in the right-of-way of the roads to cater for the future traffic demands. Special care has been taken to separate pedestrian traffic from vehicular traffic. Within the low income-groups neighbourhoods one would hardly ever need any kind of transport to move about, for everything is at a few minutes pleasant walk. The smaller communal unit is virtually road-risk free.
• In planning for the city, areas have been reserved for parks and open spaces, special buildings, special institutions, industrial and commercial zones, in addition to the residential areas, administrative sector and diplomatic enclave. The vast National Park would have institutions of national importance such as the Atomic Research Institute, the National University and the National Health Care.
• Islamabad offers a wholesome and dignified environment congenial to work and graceful to live in. It will not only be the nation’s Capital but would also be a source of inspiration to her people.
• With the compliments of the Director-General, Pakistan Post Office, Karachi.

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Issued by India

Issued on Nov 25, 1966

Issued for : On the occasion of the Centenary of the Allahabad High Court on the 25^th November, 1966, the P & T Department feels privileged to bring out a special postage stamp.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Plum

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Overall Size : 4.06 X 2.28 cms.

Printing Size : 3.80 X 2.00 cms.

Perforation : 14 x 14½

Watermark : Printed on unwatermarked paper

Number Printed : 10,00,000

Number per issue sheet : 50

Printing Process : Photogravure

Designed and Printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad was constituted by the Letters Patent issued on 17^th March, 1866. It is the fourth oldest High Court and the biggest in India.
• Originally the High Court, then known as the High Court for the North-Western Provinces sat at Agra from 1866 to 1868. In 1869 it moved to Allahabad in a building on the Sarojini Naidu Marg, and then to the present building on the Hastings Road. The foundation of the present building was laid on 18^th March, 1911 and opened by the then Viceroy & Governor General of India on 27^th November, 1916. With the increase in the number of judges, new wings have been added and a separate Advocate’s Block has been constructed. The two Courts, the Oudh Chief Court and the Allahabad High Court were amalgamated on 26^th of July, 1948. The Court made a modest beginning in 1866 with five Judges. The total number of Judges is now 38.
• The first Indian Judge elevated to the Bench of this Court was Mr. Justice Mahmood and the first Indian Chief Justice was Sir Shah Mohammad Sulaiman. The Court has had a glorious past with a galaxy of eminent Judges such as Morgan, Stanley, Mahmood, Edge, Henry Richards, Lindsay, Sulaiman, P. C. Banerji, Lal Gopal Mukerji and many others. The Bar of this Court occupies a place of pride. The names of eminent lawyers like Pt. Ayodhya Nath, Munshi Hanuman Prasad, Sir Sundar Lal, Pt. Moti Lal Nehru and Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru are enshrined in the annals of the Court. The first Prime Minister of India, Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, was a member of the Allahabad High Court Bar. Pt. Moti Lal Nehru, Pt. Madan Mohan Malviya, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Rajarshi P. D. Tandon played active part not only in the struggle for freedom but also in the social and educational uplift of the country. Some of the members of the Bar such as Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, Pt. Jagat Narain Mulla and Dr. Kailas Nath Katju have held high and exalted offices in the Central and State Governments, and Shri Gopal Swarup Pathak was then present Union Minister for Law during the issuance of this stamp.

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Issued by Pakistan

Issued on Nov 24, 1966

Issued for : To commemorate the 20^th Anniversary of UNESCO the Pakistan Post Office is issuing a postage stamp of 15 Paisa denomination on the 24^th November, 1966.

Design : The design indicates the ‘UNESCO’ emblem enclosed by four heads of colour forming a square. The emblem appears in reverse against a grey background. The area left out by the square is also in grey colour in which appears the word ‘PAKISTAN’ in Urdu, Bengali and English in clock-wise direction. The word ‘Postage’ appears in small letters underneath the word ‘Pakistan’. The denomination figure 15 appears in reverse in the bottom left corner with the word ‘Paisa’ in black underneath. The wordings “Twenty Years” appear in white in the sky blue strip and the years “1946-1966” in black in the yellow strip.

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Colours : Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Grey and Black

Size of Stamp : 36.77 x 36.77 mm

Size of Print : 33.60 x 33.60 mm

Perforation Gauge : 14 x 14 (c)

Quantity Printed : 15,00,000

Number of Stamps in each sheet : 50

Process of Printing : Litho Offset

Printers : The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd., Karachi

About : 

• UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, one of the Specialised Agencies of the United Nations system. It was created in 1946 with the purpose as defined in its constitution : “to contribute to peace and security by promoting collaboration among the nations through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedom which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion by the Charter of the United Nations”.
  
• In its 20 years of existence, UNESCO has been the motivating force behind a series of inter-governmental conferences that adopted regional long-term plans to make universal and compulsory primary education in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Thus, Ministers of Educations of 18 Asian countries met in Karachi in 1960 to plan educational development in Asia. Results in the regional development programmes are reviewed periodically at UNESCO sponsored conference of ministers in regions concerned. In the face of illiteracy, which afflicts half of the world’s adult population, UNESCO has initiated selective literacy projects linked to agricultural and industrial development. At the request of Member States, UNESCO supplies experts and assistance, particularly in long-term planning, mass techniques of education, teacher-training and teaching equipment. To help the needs of South–East Asia in text-book production, UNESCO operates a regional centre in Karachi.
  
• Science is also one of the areas in which UNESCO has been most successful in promoting international co-operation. An outstanding example of this co-operative effort is the International Indian Ocean Expedition in which research vessels and shore stations of more than 20 nations, including Pakistan, have taken part. Another, which began in 1965, is the International Hydro-logical Decade. Under this inter-governmental programme, scientists from around the world will concentrate research on various problems relating to water resources.
  
• Another part of UNESCO’s science programme deals with the application of science and technology to development. Through advisory missions, regional conferences and UN Development Programme projects, UNESCO helps fill the needs of developing countries in training scientists, technicians and technologists and developing scientific and technological research. UNESCO helps staff the Chittagong Polytechnic Institute and similar facilities at Lahore and Peshawar University.
  
• UNESCO tries to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image and to develop and improve the means and techniques of mass communication and their use for educational, scientific and cultural purposes. It has prepared broad programme for the development of information media in Latin America, South-East Asia and Africa and has provided experts in Member States.
  
• In today’s world, the importance of the social sciences cannot be too strongly emphasised. In past years, UNESCO has devoted considerable attention to the social implications of technological change and to problems of race and race tensions. UNESCO encourages the development of teaching and research into the social sciences such as providing experts to the Sociology Department of Dacca University.
  
• UNESCO also encourages the development of libraries and museums at both preservers and disseminators of culture. In addition, the success of the International Campaign to save the Monuments of Nubia has inspired a more general International Campaign for Monuments.
  
• Finally, UNESCO’s Major Project on Mutual Appreciation of Eastern and Western Cultural Values has helped people of different worlds to know and understand one another. The project has fostered scholarly studies of cultural differences, the production of teaching materials for intercultural appreciation, exchanges of professors and students between East and West, translations of major works of literature and travelling art exhibitions.

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Issued by India

Issued on Nov 14, 1966

Issued for : The Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department is happy to join in these celebrations and to bring out a stamp on this occasion.

Design : The design of the stamp is based on the rough visual prepared by Shri C.R. Pakrashi, an artist of Delhi.

Type : Stamp, Mint Condition

Colour : Magenta

Denomination : 15 Paisa

Overall Size : 2.90 X 3.91 cms.

Printing Size : 2.54 X 3.56 cms.

Perforation : 13 x 13

Watermark : Printed on unwatermarked paper

Number printed : 15,00,000

Number per issue sheet : 35

Printing Process : Photogravure

Designed and Printed at : India Security Press

About : 

• The purpose of the Children’s Day is to remind all adults of their responsibility towards children. The Children’s Day in India is celebrated on the 14^th November – the birthday of late Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru.
• The theme for this year as suggested by the International Union for Child Welfare is “Children and Peace” with the sub-title “How programmes for children contribute to the world’s peace“. Programmes that meet the needs of children at every stage of their development are the best possible contribution to the world’s peace. The children of today are the citizens of tomorrow and with them lies the future of mankind. Healthy and happy children are our strongest foundation.

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Issued by Nepal

Issued on Nov 11, 1966

Issued by : His Majesty’s Government, Postal Services Department, Nepal Philatelic Bureau, Kathmandu

Stamp Designed by : S. D. ‘Ashanta’

Type : Stamp, Postal Used

Denomination : 1 Rupee

Colour : Purple

Size : New portrait size 3.34 cms. x 2.46 cms.

Perforation : 14 x 13½

Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper on reels

Number : Half million

Sheet : 54 Stamps in one sheet

Printing Process : Photogravure

Printed at : Jore Ganesh Press Pvt. Ltd., B.I.D., Kathmandu

About : 

• Standing on sloping, tree-bordered land, near the Palais des Nations in Geneva, WHO‘s new headquarters building comprises two main blocks (a rectangular block and an adjoining cubical block) together with a one story annex. The two main structures present great contrast both in internal arrangement and outward appearance. The building can accommodate hundreds of vehicles, the entire Secretariat, Executive Board at its session, library and temporary offices. In addition, it reserves capacity to meet other expanding needs of the world organisation. Constructed at the estimated cost of 62.5 million swiss francs with an international labour force of 1000 workers and 64 firms working together for 3 million man-hours, the building is ultra modern structurally and architecturally. It was officially opened on May 7, 1966.

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