1 Rupee - George VI

Pakistan's first banknote issue came not from a Pakistani printer but from the Security Printing Corporation of India in Nasik — a consequence of Partition's chaos, in which newly independent Pakistan had no printing facilities of its own and was forced to negotiate use of the subcontinent's only established security press. The arrangement was politically awkward from the start.

These notes were essentially the British India 1 Rupee with overprints and modified text asserting Pakistani authority. The George VI designation places this firmly in the pre-republic period, before Pakistan became a republic in 1956.