On 21/8/1980, Bangladesh planned to issue a stamp titled “Support for the Palestinian Liberation Struggle”. While the stamp’s English inscription uses the term “Freedom Fighters”, the equivalent Arabic inscription states “muqatilin”, translating to “killers”. The intended word was “mujahadeen”.

Due to this error was the stamp not issued. Nonetheless, quite a substantial number of stamps were stolen from the Moscow State Printing Press, where the stamps were produced. Some of these stamps were sold without autho- risation in the postal offices of the cities Comilla and Kotbari.

Block of 4 of withdrawn stamp

Letter from Kotbari with withdrawn stamps