- Daily Times (Pakistan)
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Daily Times Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner Media Times Ltd. Publisher Shehryar Taseer Editor Rashed Rahman Founded 2002 Headquarters Lahore, Punjab,
PakistanOfficial website dailytimes.com.pk The Daily Times (DT) is an English language Pakistani newspaper. Launched on April 9, 2002, Daily Times, which is simultaneously published from Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi, is edited by Rashed Rahman. The paper was owned by the late Governor of Punjab and Pakistan Peoples Party stalwart Salmaan Taseer.
Daily Times is recognized as a newspaper that advocates liberal and secular ideas.[1] 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 joined Daily Times in November 2009 and has previously worked as Executive Editor for English dailies The Post and The Nation.
Contents
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
- Mohammad Jamil
- Shaheer Ahmad Piracha
- Afrah Jamal
- Dr Haider Shah
See also
- List of newspapers in Pakistan
- The Friday Times
References
- ^ PBS Newshour, Nov 23, 1999; Here, "liberal" refers to the use in political theory meaning freedom of thought and speech, not to a kind of bias, as in "liberal press" used to indicate bias by right leaning American commentators. "Secular" is as in secular democracy, as oppossed to a theocracy with its accompanying censorship.
External links
Categories:- English-language newspapers published in Pakistan
- Newspapers published in Pakistan
- Publications established in 2002
- Pakistani newspaper stubs
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