A traditional green flag, with the provincial emblem in the centre. The emblem reflects Punjab's natural resources: its wheat, and the five rivers which give the province its name in Persian (from Punj = Five, Aab = Waters).
A traditional green flag, with the provincial emblem in the centre. The emblem shows stylised mountains of this barren province and the principal mode of transport: the Dromedary camel, also the provincial animal of Pakistani Balochistan.
The flag displays the Pakistani national colours, white and dark green, with a crescent and star to represent the Muslim majority, and a saffron square to represent the Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and other minorities of the disputed region, the colours are clearly influenced by the Mughal Empire. The four white stripes symbolize the main rivers of the Kashmir region; Indus, Jhelum, Chenab and Ravi.
The pattern used in the Indian subcontinent (Burma, India, Pakistan and Ceylon) representing the British monarch was without the yellow scroll - the letters were directly on the blue field shows a lion standing on a crown upon a blue field. Two patterns delimited by 1953 should theoretically exist. These would have been used in what's now Bangladesh, too. [1]
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