Daily Pakistan is an Urdu daily newspaper in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. Mr. Mujib ur Rahman Shami is currently its chief editor and it has a circulation of over 500,000 copies per day. Daily Pakistan is currently published from Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Multan and Peshawar simultaneously. This Lahore-based daily was started in December 1990. During Z.A.Bhutto's democratic rule, he suffered hardships and was put behind the bars. Prior to taking over Daily Pakistan, he was Editor-in-Chief of Weekly Zindagi,Lower Mall, Lahore.

The newspaper is known for its writer Hamid Mir

Hamid Mir

Hamid Mir is a Pakistani journalist and editor. He is also a news anchor, terrorism expert, and security analyst who regularly participates in international conferences. He is also known for his columns in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, and English newspapers and hosts a popular political talk show on Geo...

 who interviewed Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...

for the Daily in 1997.

External links

• Pakistan
• Daily Pakistan Website
• Profile of Daily Pakistan at APNS