Pakistan

STATUS: Independent nation

FORMERLY: British territory (pre-1947)

PRONOUNCED: PAK ih stan

CAPITAL: Islamabad

WORLD LOCATION: South Asia

FIRST LICENSE PLATES IN USE: 1947

MOTOR VEHICLES CURRENTLY REGISTERED:  Approx. 900,000

GRAPHICS USED:  Some Pakistani plates have "LEFT HAND DRIVE" (see header), or the name of a city or town, initials, or other such extraneous material. Pakistani plates are owner provided, and some very fancy issues are known, including some with all Urdu, Farsi and Hindi texts.

PLATES ARE: Owner provided.

SINGLE PLATES OR PAIRS: Pairs

OVAL: PK

CARS DRIVE ON: Left

Header plate photo from the PL8S Magazine archive.

In case you ever had doubts as to the meaning of "Owner Provided" - here's where some owners in Pakistan get THEIR plates! Apparently you leave your registration number and choice of design with this gentleman, and come back in a day or two to pick up your own special plate! Thanks to Jerry Boone (Ohio) for sending me this photo, shot in a market stall in downtown Karachi!

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