KARACHI, Feb 3: The Pakistan Post Office has decided to establish a postal museum on I.I. Chundrigar Road, where a library, a conference hall and a research centre will also be set up.

Speaking at concluding ceremony of the three-day national stamps exhibition at the Arts Council on Monday, the Sindh postmaster general, Mohammad Ahmad Mian, said that, spread over 500 square yards, the museum would house all stamps issued by the Universal Postal Union as well as uniforms worn by postmen since the inception of the Pakistan Post Office. The library, he added, would contain books on philately. Students and researchers would be allowed to have access to the library free of charge.

The exhibition of stamps displaying the collections of around 40 philatelists got under way on Friday afternoon. It was organized by the PPO and the Philatelic Federation of Pakistan.

The postmaster general also announced that philately exhibitions would be held at the museum on a regular basis. He added that stamp clubs would be opened in schools.

The president of the Philatelic Federation of Pakistan, Salman Qureshi, said joint efforts would be made by the Pakistan Post Office and philatelic societies to popularize this hobby.

The vice president of the PFP, Imtiaz Hussain, said that students from different schools should be invited to general post offices and the philatelic bureau so that they could be properly briefed on the subject. He appreciated the efforts of the deputy postmaster general, Fazli Sattar Khan, for inviting hundreds of students to the Express Post building and introducing them to the latest services and modern means of communication being employed by the Pakistan Post Office.