THE DAWN FROM PAKISTAN
THE DAWN FROM PAKISTAN
THE DAWN
FROM PAKISTAN is Pakistan's
oldest and most widely read English-language
newspaper. One of the country's three 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, Spider, an information technology
magazine and Aurora, an
advertising, marketing and media magazine.It was founded by
Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi, India,
on 26 October 1941 as a mouthpiece for the Muslim League. The first issue was printed
at Latifi Press on 12 October 1942. The
newspaper has offices in Karachi (Sindh), Lahore (Punjab),
and the federal capital Islamabad, and representatives abroad.] As
of 2010, it has a weekday circulation of over 109,000. The CEO of Dawn
group is Hameed Haroon, and the current editor of Dawn is Zaffar Abbas. On 24
March 2016, it became the first newspaper to oppose the resumption of the death penalty in
Pakistan.
Dawn began as a weekly publication, published in New Delhi in 1941.
Under the instruction Mr. Jinnah, it became the official organ of the All India
Muslim League in Delhi, and the sole voice of the Muslims League in the English
language, reflecting and espousing the cause of the independence of Pakistan.
Jinnah summed up the paper's purpose when he stated:
"The Dawn will
mirror faithfully the views of Hindustan's Muslims and the All Hindustan Muslim
League in all its activities: economic, educational and social and more
particularly political, throughout the country fearlessly and independently and
while its policy will be, no doubt, mainly to advocate and champion the cause
of the Muslims and the policy and programme of the All Hindustan Muslim League,
it will not neglect the cause and welfare of the peoples of this sub-continent
generally". Dawn became a daily newspaper in October 1944 under the
leadership of its editor, Pothan Joseph, who later
resigned in 1944 to take up the position of the government's Principal
Information Officer in part because of differences with Jinnah over the Pakistan Movement. He was succeeded
by Altaf Husain who as the journal's editor, galvanised the Muslims of
India for independence by his editorials, which earned him ire of the Congress
Party and of Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy
and Governor General of the British Raj both of whom wanted a united
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