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title: 'World Pictorial News poster, No. 46: Urdu edition (Urdu poster distributed in Karachi)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/world-pictorial-news-46-urdu-karachi-1957-02-15/
description: An Urdu-language pictorial news sheet dated 15 February 1957, with a yellow masthead. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# World Pictorial News poster, No. 46: Urdu edition (Urdu poster distributed in Karachi)

An Urdu-language pictorial news sheet dated 15 February 1957, with a yellow masthead. It carries the same seven photographs as the Sindhi edition: a U.S. Antarctic expedition, a drawing of a Hungarian mother with a dead child, a Pakistani squash champion, a speech on Pakistan's food and farming problems, and U.S. relief goods unloaded at Alexandria for Egypt. The tell is card-stacking: U.S. science, relief and the Hungarian drawing are chosen and captioned for a Pakistani audience.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

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

```
عالمی تصویری خبریں

۱۵ فروری سنہ ۱۹۵۷ء

فیروز سنز، کراچی

[Seven photo captions in small Urdu type; not reliably legible at this resolution.] [illegible]
```

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

```
World Pictorial News

15 February 1957

Feroz Sons, Karachi

[Seven photo captions in small Urdu type, not transcribed.]
```

Only masthead, date and imprint are transcribed; captions are too small to read reliably.

[← World Pictorial News poster, 45d: Sindhi (Sindhi poster distributed in Karachi)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/world-pictorial-news-45d-sindhi-karachi-1957-02-15/) [The Westminster Choir (English and Arabic poster distributed in Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-westminster-choir-arabic-lebanon-1957/)

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