1 Rupee

Pakistan's 1 Rupee notes of this period were a direct continuation of the undivided British India format — the Government of Pakistan initially had no choice but to issue currency that closely followed Reserve Bank of India conventions, since the new state had almost no printing infrastructure of its own at Partition. This note belongs to the early years when fiscal independence was more declaration than reality.

Abdul Qadir served as the first Pakistani-appointed Finance Secretary, and his signature on these notes replaced the colonial-era British signatory. A small but deliberate assertion of administrative authority in a denomination used daily by ordinary people.