Media History
In 1947, when British agreed for partition, dividing British India into two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan, only four major Muslim owned newspapers exist in the area, now called Pakistan namely “Pakistan Times”, “Zamindar”, “Nawa-i-waqt” and “Civil and Military gazette”, all located in Lahore. However, a number of Muslim papers moved to Pakistan including Dawn which began publishing daily in Karachi in 1947. Other publications moving to Pakistan included the Morning News and the Urdu language dailies as Jang and Anjum.
By the early 2000, 1500 newspapers and journals exist in Pakistan, including those published in english, urdu and regional languages; and the press remains strong and central to public life in spite of government efforts to control it.
Newspapers:
● Dawn:
- English, 1947
- Daily
- Place of Publication : Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad
● Socialist Weekly:
- Urdu, 1947
- Editor : Mubarik Saghir
- Place : Karachi
● Daily Imroze:
- Urdu, 1950-1970, From 2016 (online)
- Place : Karachi, Lahore
● The Star:
- English, 1951
- Daily
- Place : Karachi
● Daily Basharat:
- Urdu, 1952
- Place : Karachi, Gilgit, Hyderabad
● Daily Mehran:
- Sindhi, 1957
- Place : Hyderabad
● Daily News:
- English, Begin 1960
- Editor : Wajid Shamsul Hassan (Jang Group)
- Place : Karachi, Pakistan
● Business Recorder:
- English, 27th April 1965
- Founder : M.A Zubairi
- Daily
- Place : Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad
● Daily Sarhad:
- Urdu, 1970
- Founder : Hafeez Ulfat
- Place : Peshawar
● Jasarat:
- Urdu, 1970
- Editor : Athar Hashmi
- Political Alliance : Jamiat-i-Islami
● Wahadat:
- Pashto, 1976
- Editor : Syed Haroon Shah
- Place : Peshawar
● Daily Mashriq:
- Urdu, Sep. 1983, Evening
- Editor : Syed Mumtaz Shah
- Place : Karachi, Quetta, Hyderabad
● The Frontier Post:
- English, 1985
- Place : Peshawar, Lahore, Quetta
● The Nation:
- English, 1986
- Place : Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad
● Pakistan Observer:
- English, 1988
- Place : Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Muzaffarabad
● The Friday Times:
- English, 1989
- Weekly
- Place : Lahore
● Daily Aaj:
- Urdu, 1989
- Place : Peshawar, Islamabad, Abbottabad
- Member of All Pakistan Newspaper Society
● Daily Sindu:
- Sindi, 1989
- Place : Hyderabad
● Bulekha:
- Punjabi, 1989
- Place : Lahore
● Daily Awam:
- Urdu, 1989
- Editor : Waseem Ahmad
- Place : Quetta, Islamabad
● Kawish:
- Sindhi, 1990
- Daily
● The News International:
- English, 1991
- Place : Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, London, Rawalpindi
● Khabrain:
- Urdu, 26th Sep. 1992
- Founder : Zia Shahid
- Place : Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Multan, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Sukker, Muzaffarabad
● Roznama Pakistan:
- Urdu, 1992
- Owner : Pakistan Group of Newspapers
- Place : Islamabad
● Awaam:
- 1994, Urdu
- Jang Publishers
● Daily Asas:
- Urdu, 16th July 1995
- Editor : Sheikh Iftikhar
- Place : Rawalpindi
● Lahore Post:
- Urdu, 1996
- Editor : Ch Bilal Siddique
- Place : Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sheikhupura, Kasur
● Daily Ausaf:
- Urdu, 25th December 1997
- Editor : Mehtab Khan
- Place : Islamabad, Multan, Lahore, Muzaffarabad, Gilgit, London
● Daily Pakistan
- Urdu, 1997
- Editor : Mujeeb Ur Rehman Shami
- Place : Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar
● Daily Express:
- Urdu, Sep. 1998
- Owner : Lakson Group
- Place : Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Multan, Faisalabad, Peshawar
● The Statesman:
- English, 2002
- Editor : Ayaz Badshah
- Place : Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi
● Daily Times:
- Editor : Raza Rumi
- English, 2002
- Place : Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad
● The Patriot:
- Daily, English, 2002
- Publisher : Pakistan Group of Newspaper
- Place : Islamabad
● Al Akhbar:
- Urdu, 2004
- Editor : Ghulam Akbar
● Khabraan:
- Punjabi, 2004
- Place : Lahore
● Qudrat:
- Urdu, 2004
- Place : Islamabad, Karachi, Quetta
● The Post:
- English, 2005
- Place : Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad
● The Express Tribune
- Editor : Fahad Hussain
- Publisher : Bilal Ali
- English, 2010
- Place : Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar
● Daily Nai Baat:
- Editor : Ch Abdul Rehman
- Urdu, 2011
- Place : Lahore, Karachi, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta, Dubai, Sargodha, Faisalabad
● Nawa i Watan:
- Balouchi, 23rd May 2011
- Place : Quetta
● Daily Dunya:
- Owner : Mian Amer Mehmood
- Urdu, 2012
- Place : Lahore, Karachi, Multan, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Gujranwala
● Daily Sindh:
- Publisher : Century Publications
- Sindhi, 2012
- Place : Hyderabad
● Daily Din:
- Urdu, 25th Feb. 2013
- Editor : Mehmood Sadiq
- Place : Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi
● The Financial:
- Daily, English
- Editor : Azfar Abbas Ashary
● Young World:
- Children, Weekly
- Edition : Dawn
- Creator : Kazim Zaidi
Pakistan Group of Newspapers:
- Leading, credible media house
- Headquarter, Islamabad
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