List of newspapers in Pakistan
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Following is a List of newspapers in Pakistan. With Urdu
as the national language of Pakistan
and English
as the official one, the majority of newspapers cater to those demographics. However, regional language newspapers also maintain a sizable circulation, with the Sindhi language newspapers leading the way.
Most news sources are owned by a few media conglomerates with Jang Group
, Nawai Waqt Group
, and Dawn Group
delivering the majority of the dispatches. All of these groups existed before the Pakistani independence and created a niche in both print and broadcast media. Other smaller, but significant, media agencies include Khabrain Group
, Express News Group
, Business Recorder Group
and Media Times Ltd (owner of Daily Times and Aaj Kal newspapers)and Naba News Network.
weekly Financial Mail English /urdu newspaper,The best news paper in pakistan available in Islamabad,Peshawar,Lahore ,Karachi,Multan,sailkot,Bhawalpur.
|Aaj Kal (Urdu)
|Al Akhbar (Urdu)
|Asaas (Urdu)
|Ausaaf (Urdu)
|Azkaar (Urdu)
|Daily Jasarat (Urdu)
|Daily TASHHUD (Urdu)
|Daily Khabrain (Urdu)
|Daily Mashriq
(Urdu)
|Taqat (Urdu)
|Daily Dunya (Urdu)
|Daily Dunya (Urdu)
|Daily Pakistan
(Urdu)
|Daily Nawa-e-Jang (Urdu)
|Daily Ausaaf (Urdu)
|Daily Express
(Urdu
|Nawa-e-Waqt (Urdu))
|Daily Report (Urdu)
Gujarati
Pashto
Punjabi
Saraiki
Sindhi
Newspapers listed in bold have the largest circulation.
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|City(ies)
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Official Website
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| Daily Raaj Pakistan||Lahore, ||2011||www.raajpakistannews.com||Pakistan's best Daily newspaper....
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| Alakh ||Hyderabad|| ||
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| Awami Awaz
||Karachi||1989||www.awamiawaz.com/
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| Hilal-e-Pakistan
||Karachi||1946||
www.dailyhilal.com/
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| Ibrat
||Hyderabad||1958|| www.dailyibrat.com/
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| Kawish
||Hyderabad||1990|| www.dailykawish.com/
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| Khabroon ||Karachi, Sukkur||2003||
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| Koshish ||Hyderabad||1998||
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| Mehran ||Hyderabad||1957|| www.dailymehran.com/
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| Sach ||Karachi|| ||
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| Safeer
||Hyderabad|| ||
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| Shaam
||Hyderabad||1999||
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| Daily Tulou ||Hyderabad||1997||
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| Sindh
||Hyderabad||1995||www.sindhhyd.com/
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| Sindhu ||Hyderabad||1989||
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| Sobh ||Karachi|| ||www.dailysobh.com/
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| Aaino ||Karachi|| ||www.aainonews.com/
| Tameer-e-Sindh ||Karachi|| ||www.dailytameer-e-sindh.com/
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| Mader-e-Watan || Hyderabad || ||
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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...
as the national language of 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...
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
as the official one, the majority of newspapers cater to those demographics. However, regional language newspapers also maintain a sizable circulation, with the Sindhi language newspapers leading the way.
Most news sources are owned by a few media conglomerates with Jang Group
Jang Group of Newspapers
Jang Group of Newspapers is a subsidiary of the Independent Media Corporation. It has its headquartered in Printing House, Karachi...
, Nawai Waqt Group
Nawa-i-Waqt
Nawa-i-Waqt is an Urdu daily newspaper in Pakistan. Nawa-i-Waqt started its publishing on March 23, 1940 under the leadership of Hameed Nizami. The tradition is continued by his brother Majid Nizami. Nawa-i-Waqt is one of the largest circulating newspapers in the country...
, and Dawn Group
Dawn Group of Newspapers
The Dawn Group of Newspapers is Pakistan's second largest newspaper group, owned by Pakistan Herald Publications Limited , which in turn is a subsidiary of the Dawn Media Group....
delivering the majority of the dispatches. All of these groups existed before the Pakistani independence and created a niche in both print and broadcast media. Other smaller, but significant, media agencies include Khabrain Group
Khabrain
Khabrain is an Urdu daily newspaper Pakistan. It was started on 26 September, 1992 from Lahore, Punjab by Zia Shahid.-External links:* *...
, Express News Group
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,...
, Business Recorder Group
Business Recorder Group
The Business Recorder Group is a media conglomerate in Pakistan.The Business Recorder Group specializes in niche businesses.-Daily Business Recorder:...
and Media Times Ltd (owner of Daily Times and Aaj Kal newspapers)and Naba News Network.
English-language newspapers
Newspapers listed in bold have the largest circulation.Newspaper | City(ies) | Founded | Official Website | Notes |
'Zarb-e-Jamhoor' | International, | 2011 | www.zarbejamhoor.com | History/Cultural/Current/Political Affairs |
'NewsLink.pk' | National, International, | 2011 | www.newslink.pk | Current/Political |
Daily Raaj Pakistan | Lahore, | 2011 | www.raajpakistannews.com | Pakistan's best Daily newspaper.... |
Raaj Pakistan International | Lahore,UK and Canada | 2011 | www.raajpakistannews.com | Pakistan's best Monthly Magazine with Urdu & English Language. |
City Crime Investigator | Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore | 2011 | www.citycrimeinvestigator.com | Pakistan's first Investigative News Agency and Daily Paper.... |
Business Recorder Business Recorder Business Recorder is the biggest financial daily in Pakistan and the first such publication to be published in the Muslim world. The publication is owned by the Business Recorder Group which is one of South Asia's preeminent media conglomerates with interests in Television, Web, Finance and... |
Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore | 1965 | www.brecorder.com | Pakistan's first financial daily |
Daily News | Karachi | 1962 | www.jang.com.pk | Jang Group's evening daily |
News Time Pakistan | Lahore and Los Angeles, California | 2011 | www.newstimepakistan.com | |
Daily Times | Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad | 2002 | www.dailytimes.com.pk | |
Dawn Dawn (newspaper) Dawn is Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper. One of the country's two largest English-language dailies, it is the flagship of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, published by Pakistan Herald Publications, which also owns the Herald, a magazine, the evening paper The Star and... |
Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore | 1947 | www.dawn.com | |
The Financial Daily The Financial Daily (Pakistan) The Financial Daily is Pakistan’s most comprehensive financial newspaper and financial news website. It provides stock information, daily news, research reports and reviews. It has an excellent reputation among businesses and in the economics circles of Pakistan... |
Karachi | www.thefinancialdaily.com | ||
The Friday Times | Lahore | 1989 | www.thefridaytimes.com | Weekly newspaper |
The Frontier Post Frontier Post The only English-language newspaper distributed through Pakistan and Afghanistan collectively, The Frontier Post is based in Peshawar, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, previously known as the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.... |
Peshawar, Quetta and Lahore | 1985 | www.frontierpost.com.pk | |
The Nation | Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad | 1986 | www.nation.com.pk | |
National Herald Tribune | Rawalpindi and Lahore | 2005 | www.dailynht.com | |
The News International The News International The News International , published in tabloid size, is the largest English language newspaper in Pakistan. The News has an ABC certified circulation of 140,000. It is published from Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi/Islamabad... |
Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and London | 1991 | www.thenews.com.pk | |
The Pak Banker | Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad | 2009 | http://pakbanker.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx | |
Pakistan Observer Pakistan Observer The Pakistan Observer is an English-language daily newspaper published in Islamabad, Pakistan.-Circulation and publication:Although not in the league of Dawn or The News International – Pakistan's two other widely read English-language newspapers – it is popular among its... |
Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore,Peshawar, Muzaffarabad and Quetta | 1988 | www.pakobserver.net | |
The Post The Post (Pakistani newspaper) The Post was a national daily newspaper in Pakistan, owned by Khabrain Group of newspapers. Attempting to rival the existing newspapers, it had brought a new vision into the modern journalism. It was founded on August 14, 2005 by late Ednan Shahid. The paper had its resident offices at Islamabad... |
Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi | 2005 | www.post.com.pk | Closed Permanently |
The Regional Times of Sindh The Regional Times of Sindh The Regional Times of Sindh is a daily newspaper published simultaneously from Hyderabad and Karachi. It is the only regional English daily of Sindh, Pakistan... |
Karachi, Hyderabad | www.regionaltimes.com | ||
The Star The Star (Pakistan) The Star is Pakistan's most widely read English Language evening newspaper. It was founded in 1953, in Karachi, Pakistan.It is published as part of the Dawn Group of Newspapers by Pakistan Herald Publications Limited . Focusing on controversial and current issues, the STAR has gained a reputation... |
Karachi | 1951 | www.dawn.com | Dawn Group's evening newspaper |
The Statesman The Statesman (Pakistan) The Statesman is a daily newspaper in Pakistan, its head office is in Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa - but it also publishes from Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.-External links:*... |
Peshawar | 2002 | www.statesman.com.pk | |
Pakistan Today Pakistan Today - Introduction :Pakistan Today is an English-language newspaper published from three Pakistani cities including Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad.... |
Lahore | 2010 | www.pakistantoday.com.pk | |
Target | Abbotabad | 1997 | ||
The Lahore Times | Lahore | 2011 | www.lhrtimes.com | |
Urdu Newspapers
Newspaper | City(ies) | Founded | Official Website | Daily Raaj Pakistan | Lahore, | 2011 | www.raajpakistannews.com | Pakistan's best Daily newspaper.... |
Daily Daily Daily is a short noun for a newspaper appearing each day or each weekday.Daily or The Daily may also refer to:* The Daily, a US-based iPad newspaper from News Corporation... (Urdu نبا ) |
Karachi | 2006 | [http://www.nabanews.com.pk/ www.nabanews.com.pk/] |
Naba Karachi (Urdu نبا ) | Karachi | 2006 | www.nabanews.com.pk/ |
Daily Daily Daily is a short noun for a newspaper appearing each day or each weekday.Daily or The Daily may also refer to:* The Daily, a US-based iPad newspaper from News Corporation... (Urdu تشہد ) |
Multan | 1985 | [ce.tashhud@gmail.com/] |
Shane Gujrat Shane Gujrat Shane Gujrat is the online community portal of District Gujrat, Pakistan. Shane Gujrat is a widely-read online Daily Urdu newspaper of Sarai Alamgir, Kharian, Dinga, Kunjah, Jalalpur Jattan, Kotla Arab Ali Khan and Gujrat.- Gujrat Villages:... (Urdu شان گجرات) |
Gujrat | 2009 | www.shanegujrat.com/ |
The Ideal Pakistan The Ideal Pakistan The Ideal Pakistan is an Urdu newspaper published in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. Sajid Jatoi is the chief editor and publisher of the newspaper.... |
Multan | theidealpakistan.com | |
Weekly Mubaligh (Urdu) | Islamabad | 2010 |
|Aaj Kal (Urdu)
|Al Akhbar (Urdu)
|Asaas (Urdu)
|Ausaaf (Urdu)
|Azkaar (Urdu)
|Daily Jasarat (Urdu)
|Daily TASHHUD (Urdu)
|Daily Khabrain (Urdu)
|Daily Mashriq
Daily Mashriq
Mashriq is an Urdu daily newspaper in Pakistan published from Peshawar, provincial headquarter of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa....
(Urdu)
|Taqat (Urdu)
|Daily Dunya (Urdu)
|Daily Dunya (Urdu)
|Daily Pakistan
Daily Pakistan
Daily Pakistan is an Urdu daily newspaper in Pakistan. 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...
(Urdu)
|Daily Nawa-e-Jang (Urdu)
|Daily Ausaaf (Urdu)
|Daily Express
Daily Express
The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...
(Urdu
|Nawa-e-Waqt (Urdu))
|Daily Report (Urdu)
GujaratiGujarati languageGujarati is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is derived from a language called Old Gujarati which is the ancestor language of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages...
Newspaper | City(ies) | Founded | Official Website |
Saday Muslim | Malakwal | 2010 | |
Millat Millat This article is about the Pakistani newspaper. For the Afghan TV channel, see Millat TVMillat is a bilingual Gujarati and Urdu daily newspaper based in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.... (Gujarati Gujarati language Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is derived from a language called Old Gujarati which is the ancestor language of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages... : મલ્લત) |
Karachi | 1946 | www.millatgujarati.com/ |
Vatan Vatan Vatan is a Turkish daily newspaper.A newspaper in Turkey founded in 2002, it is increasingly becoming one of the most popular.As of March 2011, Vatan newspaper had the 15th highest circulation in Turkey at 111,489.... (Gujarati Gujarati language Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is derived from a language called Old Gujarati which is the ancestor language of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages... : વતન) |
Bombay | 1942 | www.dailyvatan.com/ |
PashtoPashto languagePashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...
Newspaper | City(ies) | Founded | Official Website |
Wahdat Wahdat The Daily Wahdat or Wahdat daily is a Pashto daily newspaper published in Peshawar, in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.-Introduction:... |
Peshawar | 1983 | www.dailywahdat.com.pk/ |
PunjabiPunjabi languagePunjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...
Newspaper | City(ies) | Founded | Official Website |
Khabraan Khabran Khabran is a Punjabi daily newspaper in Pakistan. Khabran is published from Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. This newspaper is being published by Khabrain Group.... (Punjabi Punjabi language Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language... : خبراں) |
Lahore | 2004 | |
SaraikiSaraiki languageSaraiki , transliterated as Sirāikī and sometimes spelled Seraiki and Saraiki, is a standardized written language of Pakistan belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages. It is a language spoken in the heart of Pakistan...
Newspaper | City(ies) | Founded | Official Website |
Kook (Saraiki Saraiki language Saraiki , transliterated as Sirāikī and sometimes spelled Seraiki and Saraiki, is a standardized written language of Pakistan belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages. It is a language spoken in the heart of Pakistan... : كوک) |
Karachi | ||
Al-Manzoor | Taunsa Sharif | almanzoor.com.pk | |
SindhiSindhi languageSindhi is the language of the Sindh region of Pakistan that is spoken by the Sindhi people. In India, it is among 22 constitutionally recognized languages, where Sindhis are a sizeable minority. It is spoken by 53,410,910 people in Pakistan, according to the national government's Statistics Division...
Newspapers listed in bold have the largest circulation.{| class="wikitable"
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Newspaper
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|City(ies)
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Founded
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|Official Website
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| Daily Raaj Pakistan||Lahore, ||2011||www.raajpakistannews.com||Pakistan's best Daily newspaper....
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| Alakh ||Hyderabad|| ||
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| Awami Awaz
Daily Awami Awaz
Awami Awaz is a Sindhi daily newspaper in Pakistan.Power to Reach Sindhعوامي حقن جي ترجمان، ڪمپيوٽر تي پهرين مڪمل سنڌي اخبارروزاني عوامي آواز ڪراچي...
||Karachi||1989||www.awamiawaz.com/
|-
| Hilal-e-Pakistan
Daily Hilal Pakistan
-See also:* List of newspapers in PakistanThe Daily Hilal is a newspaper published in Karachi, Pakistan. It is published in the Sindhi language, which is the third most spoken tongue in Pakistan, and the official language of the province of Sindh, home to the city and the paper. The Daily Hilal...
||Karachi||1946||
www.dailyhilal.com/
|-
| Ibrat
Daily Ibrat
Ibrat is a Sindhi daily newspaper in Pakistan.The Daily Ibrat is duly and entirely certified by the Audit Bureau of Circulation, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of Pakistan, to be the largest circulated amongst all the Sindhi & regional dailies being published since the last...
||Hyderabad||1958|| www.dailyibrat.com/
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| Kawish
Daily Kawish
Kawish is a Sindhi daily newspaper in Pakistan. Kawish is published from Hyderabad. It is a property of Kazi Brothers. Kawish is the largest circulated Sindhi newspaper in Sindh.The Daily Kawish is the largest circulated newspaper in Sindhi language...
||Hyderabad||1990|| www.dailykawish.com/
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| Khabroon ||Karachi, Sukkur||2003||
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| Koshish ||Hyderabad||1998||
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| Mehran ||Hyderabad||1957|| www.dailymehran.com/
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| Sach ||Karachi|| ||
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| Safeer
Daily Safeer
Safeer is an Urdu daily newspaper published from Hyderabad, Pakistan. It was launched by Qazi group of Hyderabad. Its initial team included Ali Hassan, Sohail Sangi, Ali Kazi, Aziz Khan, Abrar Bakhtiar, Aijaz Ahmed, Qadeer Ghausi and others....
||Hyderabad|| ||
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| Shaam
Daily Sham
Sham is a Sindhi daily newspaper in Pakistan.-See also:* List of newspapers in PakistanSanaullah Phone No. 03433627731Adnan Iqbal 03427555786...
||Hyderabad||1999||
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| Daily Tulou ||Hyderabad||1997||
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| Sindh
Daily Sindh
Daily Sindh is a Sindhi language newspaper published in Hyderabad, a city in the Sindh province of Pakistan. This paper is thought to be the voice of rural Sindhi population, largely ignored in daily Pakistani state of the affairs. Daily Sindh has a wide readership across Sindh...
||Hyderabad||1995||www.sindhhyd.com/
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| Sindhu ||Hyderabad||1989||
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| Sobh ||Karachi|| ||www.dailysobh.com/
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| Aaino ||Karachi|| ||www.aainonews.com/
| Tameer-e-Sindh ||Karachi|| ||www.dailytameer-e-sindh.com/
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| Mader-e-Watan || Hyderabad || ||
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See also
- Media of PakistanMedia of PakistanMedia in Pakistan provides information on television, radio, cinema, newspapers, and magazines in Pakistan.-Regulation:The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority was formed in 2002 to "facilitate and promote a free, fair and independent electronic media", including opening the broadcasting...
- List of newspapers in the world by circulation
- List of Punjabi-language newspapers
- Pakistan Federal Union of JournalistsPakistan Federal Union of JournalistsThe Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists often referred to as The PFUJ is the first journalistic association of South Asia, representing journalists of an entire country; Pakistan...
- Council of Pakistan Newspaper EditorsCouncil of Pakistan Newspaper EditorsThe Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors has worked since its foundation in 1957 as the combined body of Newspaper Editors in Pakistan to campaign for defence of press freedom and the right of access to information in the service of democratic practice and strengthening of democratic institutions...
- Pakistan Press FoundationPakistan Press FoundationThe Pakistan Press Foundation was established in 1967 by the news agency Pakistan Press International and operated until 1974, when it had to suspend operations due to the political environment then prevailing in the country...
- Censorship in PakistanCensorship in PakistanThe Pakistani Constitution limits Censorship in Pakistan, but allows "reasonable restrictions in the interests of the sovereignty and integrity of Pakistan or public order or morality". Press freedom in Pakistan is limited by official censorship that restricts critical reporting and by the high...
External links
- RPN (RAAJ PAKISTAN NEWS) DAILY RAAJ PAKISTAN LAHORE
- All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS)
- Member Publications, All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS)
- Media links from Pakistan, Akhbarat.com Media Portal
- Pakistan Newspapers, OnlineNewspapers.com
- Urdu News from Pakistan (English translation), Urdu Reporter