Chitra Katha photo poster No. 18: Pakistan Navy gets two warships (Bengali photo poster distributed in Dacca)

A Bengali photo sheet headed 'Pakistan Navy gets two modern warships'. Photographs show the former British ships, renamed PNS Badr and PNS Khaibar, with President Iskander Mirza and naval officers aboard, a gun firing, and a U.S. embassy attache pointing out to sea. The text says the two ships were bought from the British navy for 4,480,000 dollars under the U.S. military cooperation programme. The tell is glittering-generalities: the navy's growing strength is tied to freedom and national security.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Glittering generalitiesCard stacking

Date

August 15, 1957

Period

Cold War

Made by

U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series

Region

North America

Country

United States

Medium

Poster

Issuer type

State

Regime

Eisenhower Administration

Leader

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Audience

Foreign public

Purpose

Persuade or win support

Theme

War and the military

Event

Cold War

Source

Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure

Source

U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026

Rights

Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, August 15, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948804, 306-PPB-34l).

চিত্র কথা

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Issue No. 18 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.

Chitra Katha (Picture Story)

Pakistan Navy gets two modern warships

[English imprint lines as printed.]