Express News is an Urdu

Urdu

Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 language 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...

i television news channel launched on January 1, 2008. It is owned and run by the country's third largest Urdu daily, Daily Express

Daily Express (Urdu newspaper)

The Daily Express , founded on 3 September, 1998, is one of Pakistan’s most widely circulated Urdu language newspapers, published by Century Publications, a Lakson Group subsidiary. It is published simultaneously from Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala,...

. The owners of the channel, Lakson Group

Lakson Group

The Lakson Group, was founded in 1954. Lakson Group is a well-known business group in Pakistan. The conglomerate is run by the Lakhani brothers among whom Iqbal Ali Lakhani is Chairman of the Lakson group. His siblings are Amin Lakhani, Sultan Lakhani and Zulfiqar Lakhani. Its head office is...

, launched 'Express 24/7

Express 24/7

Express 24/7 was an English language television news channel based in Pakistan. Its headquarters were located in Lahore, Pakistan. The channel was owned by the Lakson Group which also owns its sister channel Express News and newspaper Daily Express and The Express Tribune...

', a 24-hour Pakistani English news channel on February 5, 2009 .

Express News has become the second most-watched news channel after Geo News.

Express Media Group is planning to launch a complete entertainment channel. It was announced at Express family festival in Lahore on February 19, 2010..

Programs

• Shahid Naama by Dr.Shadid Masood
• Kal Tak
  Kal Tak
  Kal Tak is a Pakistani current affairs show, which airs on the news channel, Express News. It is hosted by Javed Chaudhry.-Concept:The show revolves around the political issues of Pakistan. The show is hosted by Javed Chaudhary.-Production:...
  
   (Political Talk Show)
• To The Point
  To the Point
  To the Point is an hour-long public affairs radio program co-produced by KCRW in Santa Monica, California and Public Radio International. The program originates at KCRW at 12 pm Pacific Time each weekday. Award-winning journalist Warren Olney hosts the show; it is syndicated nationwide by PRI and...
  
   (Political Talk Show)
• FRONTLINE (Political Talk Show)
• Woh kia hai?
  Woh kia hai?
  Woh kia hai? is a Pakistani paranormal investigative reality show, which airs on the news channel, Express News. The show airs every Sunday at 11:30 pm and every Monday at 8:30 am and 2:30 pm PST and is hosted by Sajjad Saleem and Ashfaq Ahmed show Produced By Syed Mohsin Iqbal.-Concept:The show is...
  
    (Paranormal Investigation)
• E-Tech (Technology Show)
• Banke Mian
  Banke Mian
  Banke Mian or Banke Mian Qawwal is a computer animated character of Pakistani television channel "Express News". As evident from his name, he appears as a Qawwal on television. Banke Mian expresses his views on politics, current affairs or other topics of interest in the form of Qawwali...
  
  
• Koi Dekhay na dekhay, Shabbir tou dekhay ga (Real Stories)
• Darling (Comedy programme)

Competitors

• AAJ TV
  AAJ TV
  AAJ TV is a 24 hour Pakistani news television channel. Aaj in English means "Today".-Channel and its Programmes:AAJ News was initially started on March 23, 2005 by the Business Recorder Group...
  
  
• ARY News
• Dawn News
  Dawn News
  Dawn News was Pakistan's 24-hour Urdu news channel. Based in Karachi, the station is a subsidiary of Pakistan Herald Publications Limited , Pakistan's largest English-language media group. The test transmission of the station occurred on May 25, 2007, and the channel went live on July 23, 2007...
  
  
• Din News
• Dunya News
  Dunya News
  Dunya News is an Urdu language news and current affairs television channel from Pakistan. Dunya in English means "World". Since its launch in 2008, the channel have been giving strong competition to the other news channels in the country. Dunya News is now available throughout Pakistan on local...
  
  
• Geo News
  GEO News
  Geo News is a Karachi-based Pakistani news channel, fully owned and operated by Jang Group. The channel started its broadcasting in November 2005 and has millions of Urdu-language viewers around the world.- Popular Shows :...
  
  
• Indus News
• News One
  News One
  Launched on November 27, 2007, News ONE is Pakistan's premier news channel and is licensed by Air Waves Media Ltd. and comes under the umbrella of the largest advertising group in Pakistan, The Interflow Group of Companies....
  
  
• PTV News
  PTV News
  PTV News is a 24-hour state news channel in Pakistan. It provides news in English and Urdu to the Pakistani community worldwide...
  
  
• Samaa News
  SAMAA TV
  SAMAA TV is a Pakistani news network.- Competitors :*Dunya News*Geo News*ARY News*Express News*Indus News*Waqt News- External links :*...
  
  
• Waqt News

External links

• Official website