First Postage Stamp Day observed
Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) and Philatelist Association of Bangladesh (PAB) jointly observed “First Postage Stamp Day” yesterday marking the release of the country's first stamps, numbering eight, by the Mujibnagar government in 1971.
The postal department also issued a special envelop priced at Tk 10.
PAB organised a discussion and documentary show on the historical accounts of the stamps, which had played an important role in creating opinion in favour of the Liberation War, in the capital's General Post Office.
The stamps' designer, Biman Mullick, now a UK resident, was conferred Friends of Liberation War Honour by the Bangladesh government on March 27, 2012, said PAB General Secretary ATM Anwarul Quadir.
The stamps had “Bangla Desh” written on them with different motifs, including the map of Bangladesh, the massacre in Dhaka University, the nation of 75 million people, flag of independence and a portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
In 1971, The Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph in London published news of these stamps after they were displayed at Britain's House of Commons and Trafalgar Square in London.
BPO Director General Nayeb Delwar Hussain and Dhaka Metropolitan Circle Postmaster General PC Saha also addressed the programme.
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