World Pictorial News poster, 15 April 1957 (Urdu poster distributed in Karachi)
An Urdu news-photo sheet headed 'World Pictorial News' (a globe beside the title), dated 15 April 1957, with six captioned photographs. They show Pakistani sailors of P.N.S. Dilawar leaving for U.S. training, a reception for a U.S. Middle East envoy, a Karnaphuli dam contract signing in Washington, a pearl crown in Tokyo, military-aid mules unloaded in Bangkok and gifts for children. The tell is card-stacking: a selection of items showing U.S. aid and partnerships.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- April 18, 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
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, April 18, 1957. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948830, 306-PPB-44).
Text on the object
عالمی تصویری خبریں [six photograph captions not transcribed] ۱۵ اپریل ۱۹۵۷ء فیروز سنز کراچی Panel label in a photograph: P.N.S. DILAWAR
World Pictorial News. [Six photograph captions not transcribed.] 15 April 1957. Ferozsons, Karachi.
Only the title, date line and imprint are transcribed.
