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title: Pakistani Sea Scouts on Cruise poster (Urdu poster distributed in Karachi)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pakistani-sea-scouts-on-cruise-urdu-karachi-1956/
description: An Urdu photo sheet titled 'Pakistani Sea Scouts on a sea voyage'. Nine captioned photographs show Pakistani Sea Scouts boarding a U.S. Navy ship.
section: Collection
---

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[![Pakistani Sea Scouts on Cruise poster, 1956 US poster: An Urdu photo sheet titled 'Pakistani Sea Scouts on a sea voyage'.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pakistani-sea-scouts-on-cruise-urdu-karachi-1956.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/pakistani-sea-scouts-on-cruise-urdu-karachi-1956.jpg)

# Pakistani Sea Scouts on Cruise poster (Urdu poster distributed in Karachi)

An Urdu photo sheet titled 'Pakistani Sea Scouts on a sea voyage'. Nine captioned photographs show Pakistani Sea Scouts boarding a U.S. Navy ship, shaking hands with its commander, eating ice cream and meals with U.S. sailors, and taking part in signalling. The tell is transfer and plain-folks: friendly shipboard routines are used to associate Pakistani youth with the U.S. Navy.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

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

```
پاکستانی بحری اسکاؤٹ سمندری سفر پر

[nine photograph captions not transcribed]

(سول اینڈ ملٹری پریس کراچی)
```

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

```
Pakistani Sea Scouts on a sea voyage. [Nine photograph captions not transcribed.] (Civil and Military Press, Karachi)
```

Only the headline and credit line are transcribed; the nine captions are not.

[← A test he can't abandon!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-a-test-he-cant-abandon-1956/) [Et Tu...? \[Dulles and the UN vetoes\] →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/et-tu-dulles-un-veto-berryman-1956/)

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