The Dawn

                                           THE DAWN    

Image result for the dawn newspaper images                    DAWN 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. 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.  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. 
Image result for the dawn newspaper images                    Dawn regularly carries syndicated articles from western newspapers like The Independent, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times  and The Washington Post.On Sundays, the weekend advertiser carries three sections namely "Ad Buzz", "Career" & "Real Estate".On 19 May 2011, Dawn Media Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, for the exclusive first use in Pakistan of all the secret US diplomatic cables related to political and other developments in the country.The Dawn‘s staffer’s story, “Act against militants or face international isolation, civilians tell military” became a big scandal due to which Information minister Pervaiz Rashid resigned from his post, following a preliminary investigation established a ‘lapse’ on his part vis-à-vis the publication of the ‘planted’ story.

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