New issues -
Maldives Post -
25 July 2025 - 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Maldives, Joint issue, local boats - 2 stamps and 1 miniature sheet (see Blog 2758). Kennethsequera has posted an illustration of the Maldives contribution to the joint issue on Stampboards.
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan Post -
5 August 2025 - “Condemning revocation of Article 370/34A on 5 August 2019 India Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) - 1 stamp. Designed “supplied by the customer” (presumably the Pakistani government) and lithographed by National Security Printing Company Karachi. Rating:- **.
It seems that the governments of India and Pakistan are mainly playing out the eternal conflict between them through their postage stamps which when you think about, is not such a bad thing- at least no-one gets hurt through philatelic warfare.
Pakistan Post put out a pamphlet explaining this issue and I reproduce it below -
I wonder what would the Indian Post Office do with mail carrying these stamps? Refuse to deliver it, or black the stamp out completely?
ReplyDeleteOr just not bother about it.