List of newspapers in Pakistan
The total number of newspapers are 707 as 2019 according to Pakistan bureau of statistic.Following is a list of newspapers in Pakistan.[1][2][3][4]
| No. | Newspaper | Type | Language | Location | Founded | Notes |
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| 1 | Pakistan Times (Urdu:پاکستان ٹائمز) |
Daily | English, Urdu | Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Gujranwala | 4 February 1947 | Defunct |
| 3 | Daily Qudrat[4] | Urdu and English | Quetta, Karachi, Islamabad | 2004 | Founded by Naimat Ullah Achakzai.
Founded on 4 April 2004 From Quetta balochistan. Online (digital) publication started in 2011. | |
| 5 | The Dayspring[4] | Fortnightly | English | Islamabad | 2018 | Pakistan first youth centric news agency independent newspaper of Dayspring Media, launched on 1 November 2018. |
| 6 | Pahanji Akhbar[4] (Sindhi:پيهنجي اخبار) |
Daily | Sindhi | Karachi, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Sukkur | 2018 | First completely digital Sindhi Newspaper. |
| 9 | Daily Ibrat[4]
(Urdu:عبرت) |
Sindhi | Hyderabad, Karachi, Sukkur, Lahore, Islamabad. | 1958 | International and regional news | |
| 10 | Daily Jang (Urdu:روزنامہ جنگ) |
Urdu | Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Multan, London | 1946 | Second-oldest continuously published Urdu language newspaper in Pakistan | |
| 11 | Daily Nawa-i-Waqt | Lahore, Karachi, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Multan | 1940 | Oldest continuously published Urdu language newspaper in Pakistan | ||
| 12 | Daily The Patriot[4] | English | Islamabad, Lahore | – | ||
| 14 | Khabrain (Urdu:خبریں) |
Urdu | Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan, Muzafarabad, Peshawer, Sukker | 1992 | ||
| 15 | Daily Express (Urdu:ایکسپریس) |
Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Quetta, Peshawar, Multan | 1998 | International and regional news | ||
| 15 | Daily Global Current News[4] (Urdu:گلوبل نیوز ) |
Urdu / English | All Pakistan | 1992 | International and regional news | |
| 17 | BOL News (Urdu:بول نیوز) |
Urdu / English | All Pakistan | 2013 | International and regional news | |
| 18 | Daily Nai Baat[4] | Urdu | Lahore, Karachi, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta | 2011 | Current/political | |
| 20 | Daily Sarhad (Urdu:سرحد) | Peshawar | 1970 | |||
| 21 | Business Recorder | English | Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore | 1965 | Pakistan's first financial newspaper | |
| 22 | Daily Times | Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad | 2002 | |||
| 24 | Dawn[5] | Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore | 1947 | Founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ||
| 25 | The Friday Times[5] | Weekly | Lahore | 1989 | Weekly newspaper | |
| 27 | Bayan[4] | Daily | Urdu | Peshawar | 2017 | |
| 28 | The Frontier Post | English | Peshawar, Quetta and Lahore | 1985 | ||
| 29 | The Nation[5] | Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad | 1986 | |||
| 30 | The News International | Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad/Rawalpindi and London | 1991 | |||
| 31 | Pakistan Observer | Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad and Quetta | 1988 | |||
| 32 | The Post | Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi | 2005 | Defunct | ||
| 33 | Khalsa Akhbar Lahore | Punjabi | Lahore | 1886 | Defunct | |
| 34 | The Regional Times of Sindh[4] | English | Karachi, Hyderabad | – | ||
| 35 | The Star | Karachi | 1951 | Dawn Group's evening newspaper; now defunct | ||
| 36 | The Statesman | Peshawar | 2002 | |||
| 37 | Pakistan Today | Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad | 2010 | |||
| 38 | Daily Pakistan | Urdu | Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Peshawar | 1997 | ||
| 39 | The Express Tribune | English | Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar | 2010 | ||
| 40 | Daily Dunya | Urdu | Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan, Islamabad | 2012 | ||
| 41 | Daily Nizam[4] (Urdu:روزنامہ نظام) |
Islamabad | 2017 | Authentic continuously published Urdu language newspaper in Pakistan | ||
| 42 | Wahdat[4] (Pashto: وحدت) |
Pashto | Peshawar | 1983 | ||
| 43 | Sajjan (Punjabi:سجن) |
Punjabi | Lahore | 1989 | First Punjabi newspaper of Pakistan, started in 1989 by Hussain naqi and defunct in 1990. Started online website again in 2019. | |
| 45 | Daily Lokaai (Punjabi:لوکائی) |
Lahore | 2006 | |||
| 47 | Bhulekha (Punjabi:بھلیکھا) |
Lahore, Gujranwala | 1989 | |||
| 48 | Daily Hilal-e-Pakistan (Sindhi: هلال پاڪستان) |
Sindhi | Karachi | 1946 | ||
| 49 | Daily Kawish (Sindhi: ڪاوش) | Hyderabad | 1990 | |||
| 50 | Daily Koshish (Sindhi: ڪوشش) | Hyderabad | 1998 | |||
| 51 | Daily Mehran (Sindhi: مهراڻ) | Hyderabad | 1957 | |||
| 52 | Daily 92 (Urdu: روزنامہ ٩٢) |
Urdu | Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Quetta, Peshawar, Multan | – | ||
| 53 | Daily Safeer[4] (Sindhi: سفیر) | Sindhi | Hyderabad | |||
| 54 | Daily Sindh[4] (Sindhi: سنڌ) |
Hyderabad | 1995 | |||
| 55 | Daily Sindhu[4] (Sindhi: سنڌو) |
Hyderabad | 1989 | |||
| 56 | Daily Basharat (Urdu:روزنامہ بشارت) | Urdu | Karachi, Hyderabad, Gilgit | 1952 | ||
| 57 | Daily Ummat | Karachi | 1996 | |||
| 58 | Manaqib[4] (Urdu:مناقب) | Islamabad, Sargodha | 2016 | Pakistan and World News | ||
| 59 | Qum News[4] | Weekly | Karachi, Hyderabad, shikarpur and whole Pakistan | 2017 | Founded by Rasheed Azad | |
| 60 | Christian Voice | English | Karachi | 1950 | Second oldest Catholic publication in Pakistan | |
| 61 | Indus News | Daily | Sindhi | Islamabad | 2010 | Indusnews.net was launched in the name dxingworld.info on 4 Dec 2010, later name was changed in July 2011 and in the same year Indus News won a regional news award in regional news blogs. Chief Editor: Zahoor Solangi |
| 62 | Weekly Parda Chaak[4] (Urdu:ہفت روزہ پردہ چاک) |
Weekly | Urdu | Lahore, Pakistan | 1991 | Founded by Sheikh Waseem Ahmad Anwar.
Parda chaak is a weekly news publication being regularly published from Lahore Pakistan. |
| 63 | Daily Ausaf | Daily | Urdu | Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Europe, Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan | 1997 | Its chief editor is Mehtab Khan. Daily Ausaf was inaugurated on 25 December 1997 from Islamabad |
| 64 | Daily Aaj | Peshawar, Abbottabad | 1989 | Editor-in-chief: A.W. Yousfi | ||
| 65 | Daily Mashriq | Peshawar | 1963 | Founder is Inayat Ullah Khan | ||
| 66 | Daily Talib | Quetta | 2004 | Online (digital) publication started in 2021 | ||
| 67 | Urdu Globally | Online | Islamabad | 2017 | Urdu Globally is an online digital media publication website covering latest news, stories, headlines and updates round the clock founded in April, 2017 by Azmat Ullah Khan | |
| 68 | Al Akhbar | Daily | Islamabad, Muzaffarabad | – | ||
| 69 | Awam | Urdu, Sindhi | Karachi | 1994 | ||
| 70 | Civil and Military Gazette | Urdu | Lahore, Karachi | 1872 | Defunct in 1963 | |
| 71 | Daily Asas | Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad, Muzaffarabad | 1995 | |||
| 72 | Daily Awam | Islamabad, Quetta, Hub. | 1989 | Defunct in 2018 | ||
| 73 | Daily Awami Awaz | Sindhi | Karachi | – | ||
| 74 | Daily Din | Urdu | Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Islamabad, Rawalpindi | |||
| 75 | Daily Imroze | Lahore, Karachi | pre 1947 | |||
| 76 | Daily Inqilab | Lahore | 1927 | Defunct in 1949 | ||
| 77 | Daily Jasarat | Karachi | 1970 | |||
| 78 | Daily Qaumi Bandhan | Bengali | 1940s | Defunct | ||
| 79 | Khyber Mail | Urdu | Peshawar | 1932 | Defunct in 1989 | |
| 80 | Daily Maidan | – | ||||
| 81 | Millat | Gujrati, Urdu | Karachi | 1948 | ||
| 82 | Talár | Brahui | – | – | ||
| 83 | Agahi | Weekly | Urdu | Karachi | 2006 | |
| 84 | Zamindar | – | Lahore | 1873 | Defunct in 1956 | |
| 85 | Nawai Watan | Balochi | Quetta | – | ||
| 86 | Sandesh | Urdu, Sindhi | Kotri | |||
| 87 | Socialist Weekly | Weekly | Urdu | Karachi | 1947 | Defunct |
| 88 | Daily Sehar[5] | Daily | Lahore | 2006 | ||
| 89 | Daily Nai Roshni[4] | Multan | 1985 |
References[]
- ^ "The patchy world of Urdu newspapers". Dawn (newspaper). 19 October 2017.
- ^ "The struggle of Sindhi newspapers". Dawn (newspaper). 20 October 2017.
- ^ "13 Pakistani newspapers you've probably never heard of". The Express Tribune (newspaper). 14 March 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "List of ABC Certified Newspapers/Periodicals". Audit Bureau of Circulation (Government of Pakistan). Retrieved 10 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Member Publications". All Pakistan Newspapers Society (apns.com.pk).
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