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title: 'Chitra Katha photo poster No. 14: Baghdad Pact ministers at Karachi (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-14-baghdad-pact-karachi-bengali-dacca-1957/
description: A Bengali photo sheet of the Baghdad Pact ministerial council meeting in Karachi, 3 to 6 June, as described in the text.
section: Collection
---

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# Chitra Katha photo poster No. 14: Baghdad Pact ministers at Karachi (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)

A Bengali photo sheet of the Baghdad Pact ministerial council meeting in Karachi, 3 to 6 June, as described in the text. Photographs show Pakistani and U.S. flags, honour guards, and arrivals of delegates from the United States, Britain, Iran, Turkey and Iraq. Captions quote Iraq's prime minister calling the pact 'strong and permanent'. The tell is bandwagon and card-stacking: a procession of allied leaders and ceremonies stands for broad support, with no dissenting voices shown.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (Bengali) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
চিত্র কথা

Issue No. 14 Published weekly for U.S.I.S, Dacca by Jatiya Mudran.
Editor's Note :-- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
```

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

```
Chitra Katha (Picture Story)

[English imprint lines as printed.]
```

Masthead, headlines and imprint transcribed; the Bengali body captions beneath the photographs are not transcribed in full.

[← Chitra Katha photo poster No. 13: Pakistani students at Beirut (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-13-pakistani-students-beirut-bengali-dacca-1957/) [People's Capitalism exhibition poster, No. 62 (Spanish, USIS Guatemala) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/peoples-capitalism-exhibition-poster-62-guatemala-1957/)

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