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title: Baghdad Pact flags poster FI-M-2 (English and Arabic, Karachi)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/baghdad-pact-flags-fi-m-2-karachi-1958/
description: A green poster with a white crescent and star, four national flags (Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq) stacked inside the crescent.
section: Collection
---

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# Baghdad Pact flags poster FI-M-2 (English and Arabic, Karachi)

A green poster with a white crescent and star, four national flags (Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq) stacked inside the crescent, and a Quranic verse in Arabic with an English rendering, 'And hold fast, all of you together, to the line of Allah, and do not separate'. The text says 130,000,000 free people in the four Muslim nations of the Baghdad Pact are united in faith for security and progress. The tell is transfer: a religious verse and crescent symbol are attached to a defence pact.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (English; Arabic (Quranic verse) with Urdu-script citation) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلَا تَفَرَّقُوا
(پ - رکوع ۲ - آیت ۲)

AND HOLD FAST, ALL OF YOU TOGETHER, TO
THE LINE OF ALLAH, AND DO NOT SEPARATE

In the four Muslim
Nations of
the Baghdad Pact
130,000,000 free
people are
United
IN
FAITH
FOR
SECURITY
AND
PROGRESS

FI-M-2
FORCES INFORMATION SECTION
I S P R DIRECTORATE

M. G. HAFIZ.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The English text is as printed. The Arabic line is the same verse as the English line above it: 'And hold fast, all of you together, to the rope of Allah, and do not separate' (the English on the sheet reads 'line'). The Urdu-script citation reads: (Para, section 2, verse 2).
```

Arabic vocalisation reproduced as best read from the print.

[← Burma-America Picture News poster No. 19 (Burmese poster distributed in Rangoon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/burma-america-picture-news-no-19-burmese-1958/) [Baghdad Pact map poster FI-M-1 (English, Karachi) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/baghdad-pact-map-fi-m-1-english-karachi-1958/)

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