Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah military officer to establish conscription. Mubarak was the son of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jaber Abdullah II Al-Sabah (1899–1996); the first Minister of Education of Kuwait and Sheikha Munira bint Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (b. 1911 in Kuwait City), eldest daughter of Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Mubarak joined the Directorate of Public Security Force as a Lieutenant during the period in which the directorate included the partnership of the Kuwait Army and split in 1953. The next year, he was appointed as the first deputy commander of the Kuwait Army. In 1960, Mubarak founded the Kuwait 25th Commando Brigade, the first designated
Postage stamps and postal history of the postal convention states of India of 117 stamps and 68 official stamps from 1885 till 20 Aug 1948 when it was absorbed into the Patiala and East Punjab states union. Patiala was a princely state in the Punjab. The largest, wealthiest and most populous of the Phulkian states, it had the highest precedence amongst them. Patiala was the first of the Phulkian states to sign a postal convention which it did on 1 October 1884. The convention was later modified in 1900. At the time of the signing of the convention, the ruler Maharaja Rajendra Singh, was a minor and the state administered by a