Pakistan Post issued stamps on fifteen different occasions of national and international importance. However the hallmark of the year's activities was the issuance of a massive six stamps sheet on the eve of the International Stamp Exhibition "PAKPHILEX '83" - showing the cultural landscape of the old city of Lahore as seen in 1852.
6 January: Inauguration of Quetta Natural Gas Pipeline Project
9 March: Handicrafts
16 March: Opening of Aga Khan University, Karachi
28 April: Trekking in Pakistan
The stamp depicted a caravan of Yaks passing through the Hindukush mountain range
19 May: Wildlife Series (Fauna) - Crocodylus palustris
20 June: Wildlife Series (Fauna) - Gazella gazella bennettii
14 August 1983: The 36th Anniversary of Independence
19 August: Indonesian-Pakistan Economic and Cultural Co-operation
8 September: Wildlife Series (Fauna) - Grus leucogranus
24 October: World Communications Year
24 October: World Food Day - National Fertilizer Corporation
13 November: International Stamp Exhibition "PAKPHILEX '83" - Lahore, Pakistan
31 December Yachting Champions in Asian Games 1982, New Delhi
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