World Pictorial News poster, 45c: Urdu (Urdu poster distributed in Karachi)
A six-photograph pictorial news sheet in Urdu, dated 31 March 1957. It shows relief workers loading a vehicle, American and Pakistani officials inspecting imported sheep near Lahore, Turkish, Iraqi, Pakistani and Iranian leaders at a Baghdad Pact meeting, a Saudi prince at a Washington hospital, and a U.S. Navy vessel handed to Pakistan. The tell is card-stacking: only items showing U.S. aid and U.S.-Pakistan cooperation are selected, with friendship stated in the captions.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- March 31, 1957
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department IIEP), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series; Feroz Sons, Karachi (imprint)
- 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
- Themes
- War and the military, Media and information
- 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, 31 March 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948833, 306-PPB-45c).
Text on the object
عالمی تصویری خبریں ۳۱ مارچ ۱۹۵۷ء فیروز سنز، کراچی [Six photo captions in small Urdu type, only partly legible; not transcribed verbatim.] [illegible]
World Pictorial News 31 March 1957 Feroz Sons, Karachi [Six photo captions in small Urdu type, not transcribed.]
Headline, date and imprint transcribed in full; the six photo captions are in very small Urdu type and are only summarised in square brackets, not transcribed verbatim.
