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Daily Imroze (Urdu: روزنامہ اِمروز) is an Urdu language newspaper in Pakistan published daily from Karachi. [1] [2] This is one of the oldest newspapers of Pakistan that originally started publishing from Lahore in the newly independent Pakistan soon after 1947.
Pakistan has around 300 privately owned daily newspapers. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (formerly the Federal Bureau of Statistics), they had a combined daily sale of 6.1 million copies in 2009. Television is the main source of news and information for people in Pakistan's towns, cities and large areas of the countryside.
The group's flagship Daily Jang is Pakistan's most prominent Urdu daily newspaper. [citation needed] The group also owns the Pakistani TV channel Geo News, arguably the most popular TV news channel in Pakistan. It is published from Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Quetta, Multan and London. [4]
Geo News is a Pakistani news channel owned by the Jang Media Group. [2] It was launched in October 2002 as the news and current affairs program was under its flagship channel Geo TV, which later in 2004, Geo TV decided to launch its own news channel.
Daily Ummat has a distinctively pro-Islamist stance. [3] It actively promotes causes such as actions in the India-administered Kashmir and opposition to western forces in Afghanistan . [ 3 ] The newspaper routinely covers instances of alleged or actual discrimination against Muslims worldwide.
Hamid Mir's grandfather was Mir Abdul Aziz from Sialkot, who was a poet in Punjabi, Urdu and Persian. [32] Mir's father, Waris Mir, was also a columnist for Daily Jang and Mir's mother was Mumtaz Mir, who migrated to Pakistan from Jammu in the region of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. [33]
Zafar was born in 1873 into a Punjabi family of the Rajput Janjua clan, [5] as per the contemporary report of 1920.. He received his early education at Mission High School, Wazirabad, Wazirabad District, [6] matriculated (10th grade) from Patiala, and passed his intermediate (12th grade) from the Aligarh College in 1895.
The Pakistan Newspapers Society was established in 1950. Later, All Pakistan Newspapers Society was established in 1953 and was headed by Hamid Nizami, Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman, Mian Iftikharuddin, Fakhre Matri, Hamid Mahmood, Yusuf Haroon, Mahmud A. Haroon, A.G. Mirza, Kazi Mohammad Akber, Munawwar Hidayet Ullah, K. M. Hamid Ullah, Anwarul Islam of the newspaper Pakistan Observer, Dacca, Syed ...