{"id":246310,"date":"2022-02-25T09:01:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T04:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=246310"},"modified":"2022-02-25T09:01:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T04:01:48","slug":"arif-balgamwala-wins-gold-medal-at-london-2022-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/arif-balgamwala-wins-gold-medal-at-london-2022-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Arif Balgamwala wins Gold medal at London 2022 Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>first-ever Pakistani<br \/>\nIslamabad: Pakistan has won a Gold medal in the International Stamp Exhibition \u2018\u2019London 2022\u2019\u2019 held in the United Kingdom (UK). M. Arif Balgamwala is a prominent Pakistani businessman and philatelist (Tamgha-e-Imtiaz), and former Chairman Karachi Chamber\u2019s Diplomatic Sub-Committee, former Chairman Pakistan Chemicals &#038; Dyes Merchants Association. The exhibition, held at the Business Design Centre at Islington London, took place on 19-26 Feb 2022. The exhibition is held every 10 years. Arif Balgamwala has the unique honor of being the first Pakistani to win a Gold Medal for his comprehensive collection of Pakistan Overprints (1947 to 1949) of this exhibition. Muhammad Arif Balgamwala while naming his success to Pakistan, said that he is very proud of his country which gave him this position and stature today. Arif Balgamwala vowed that he would continue his efforts to brighten the name of Pakistan and project the soft image of the country to the world via the field of philately. Our Correspondent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>first-ever Pakistani Islamabad: Pakistan has won a Gold medal in the International Stamp Exhibition \u2018\u2019London 2022\u2019\u2019 held in the United Kingdom (UK). M. Arif Balgamwala is a prominent Pakistani businessman and philatelist (Tamgha-e-Imtiaz), and former Chairman Karachi Chamber\u2019s Diplomatic Sub-Committee, former Chairman Pakistan Chemicals &#038; Dyes Merchants Association. The exhibition, held at the Business Design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Arif Balgamwala wins Gold medal at London 2022 Exhibition<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/arif-balgamwala-wins-gold-medal-at-london-2022-exhibition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Arif Balgamwala wins Gold medal at London 2022 Exhibition\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"first-ever Pakistani Islamabad: Pakistan has won a Gold medal in the International Stamp Exhibition \u2018\u2019London 2022\u2019\u2019 held in the United Kingdom (UK). 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