10 Rupees

This note belongs to the first series printed entirely within Pakistan following the 1971 war and the secession of East Pakistan as Bangladesh — a rupture that also severed access to the East Pakistan Security Printing Corporation in Dhaka. The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation in Karachi, which had been established in the 1960s partly to reduce dependence on foreign printers, was left as the sole domestic facility. The timing gave this series an unexpectedly political weight it was never designed to carry.

Four signature combinations are documented across the series, with Ghulam Ishaq Khan — later President of Pakistan — accounting for three of them. Replacement notes are identified by the double-asterisk prefix.