The Daily Times is an English language

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 Pakistan

Pakistan

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i newspaper

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. Launched on April 9, 2002, Daily Times, which is simultaneously published from Lahore

Lahore

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, Islamabad

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 and Karachi

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, is edited by Rashed Rahman

Rashed Rahman

Rashed Rahman is an editor of one Pakistan's major English language newspapers, the Daily Times. He is a son of Justice S.A. Rehman, former Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court...

. The paper was owned by the late Governor of Punjab and Pakistan Peoples Party

Pakistan Peoples Party

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 stalwart Salmaan Taseer

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Daily Times is recognized as a newspaper that advocates liberal

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 and secular ideas. The DT has gained popularity as well as notoriety due to some of its editorials, considered controversial in some parts of Pakistan, but lauded in the international press. For example, the Daily Times came under blistering criticism by some in the ethnic Pashtoon community at the end of 2006 when it published a highly controversial editorial “Say ‘yes’ to ‘naswar’!”.
Editor Rashed Rahman

Rashed Rahman

Rashed Rahman is an editor of one Pakistan's major English language newspapers, the Daily Times. He is a son of Justice S.A. Rehman, former Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court...

 joined Daily Times in November 2009 and has previously worked as Executive Editor for English dailies The Post and The Nation.

Columnists

The main contributors of Daily Times include:

• Dr Hassan Askari Rizvi
• Zafar Hilaly
• Ishtiaq Ahmed
• Munir Attaullah
• Babar Ayaz
• Gulmina Bilal Ahmad
• Dr Mahjabeen Islam
• Farrukh Khan Pitafi
• Dr Manzur Ejaz
• Mehmal Sarfraz (Op-Ed Editor Daily Times)
• Zaair Hussain
• Garga Chatterjee
• J Sri Raman
• Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
• Ali K Chishti
• Andleeb Abbas
• Ishrat Saleem
• Rakesh Mani
• Abbas Rashid
• Salman Tarik Kureshi
• Naeem Tahir
• Shahzad Chaudhry
• Dr Syed Mansoor Hussain
• Yasser Latif Hamdani
• Reem Wasay
• Ralph Shaw
• Dr Amjad Pervaiz
• Mashal Sahir
• Iftikhar Ahmad
  Iftikhar Ahmad
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• Mohammad Jamil
• Shaheer Ahmad Piracha
• Afrah Jamal
• Dr Haider Shah