Pakistan Flags – Pakistani Flag, Bunting & Hand Flags

The Pakistani flag: crescent and star on green

The Pakistan flag is a dark green field with a white vertical band at the hoist taking up a quarter of the width, and a white crescent and five-pointed star set in the green. It was designed by Syed Amir-uddin Kedwaii on the basis of the All-India Muslim League banner and adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 11 August 1947, three days before independence. The green stands for the Muslim majority and the white stripe for the country’s religious minorities; the crescent is progress and the star light and knowledge. The crescent is tilted so that its points face the upper fly, a detail cheaper copies often get wrong. Our Pakistan flag keeps the official 2:3 proportion, the correct crescent angle and the deep green of the specification, printed through so it reads properly from both sides.

Independence Day, Pakistan Day and the cricket

14 August is Independence Day, the biggest day of the year for Pakistani flags in the UK, with melas and flag-raisings in Bradford, Birmingham, Manchester, Luton and Glasgow; Pakistan Day on 23 March and Kashmir Solidarity Day on 5 February are the other fixed dates. Cricket is the year-round driver: Pakistan touring sides at Lord’s, Edgbaston, Headingley and Old Trafford, T20 World Cup and Champions Trophy matches in England, and the Pakistan Super League followed on screens in every shisha lounge and restaurant. Hockey, kabaddi tournaments and the Pakistan women’s team add to it, and Pakistani restaurants, sweet centres and travel agents fly a flag year-round.

Which size Pakistan flag?

For a mela stall, a restaurant front or a garden pole, the 5ft x 3ft Pakistani flag is the usual choice. A bedroom, shop window or short pole suits 3ft x 2ft; a mosque or community-centre flagpole, a stage or a cricket-ground banner suits 8ft x 5ft; and a hand pole or car takes the 20x12in. Each Pakistani size is hemmed into a sewn header carrying brass eyelets, and on DuraFlag you may choose rope-and-toggle or clip fittings.

Flagtex, nylon or DuraFlag?

For 14 August, buy Flagtex by the dozen: it is the printed woven-polyester Pakistan flag. The nylon version is lighter and lifts in less wind, which makes it popular on car-window poles and procession hand poles. DuraFlag, the heaviest, is knitted polyester with twin-stitched hems and a strengthened header for a flag left up all year outside a Pakistani community centre or restaurant. Order by 2pm for dispatch that day; each green-and-white grade is stocked in and dispatched from our Stoke-on-Trent warehouse.

Pakistan bunting

An Independence Day street party, a restaurant ceiling, a wedding marquee or a school culture day: Pakistan bunting repeats the green flag with its crescent and star, pennant after pennant, along a strong tape, 3m or 9m long and printed on weatherproof polyester. Strung with Union Jack bunting it gives the classic British-Pakistani mela look.

Hand flags and table flags

At the cricket, on the mela procession and in the arrivals hall, Pakistan hand flags on wooden sticks come at 9x6in or 18x12in. The Pakistan table flag , 6x4in and standing on its base, is for a restaurant counter, a consulate office or a school project, and the satin table flag, mounted on chrome, suits a boardroom or a community-association reception. India, Bangladesh, Kashmir and Afghanistan each have a separate hub within world flags.

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