The Friday Times is Pakistan's first English-language independent newsweekly, based in Lahore, Pakistan. ( lahor is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and It was first published on 25th May, 1989.
TFT’s editorial policy is independent as demonstrated by the national and international standing of the newspaper. TFT’s founder-editor, Najam Sethi, and publisher Jugnu Mohsin, are recipients of international awards conferred by Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Najam Sethi, a Pakistani journalist editor and media personality is the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times, a Lahore based political weekly Jugnu Mohsin is a Pakistani Publisher and editor of the Lahore -based The Friday Times, Pakistan's first English-language TFT is the most highly quoted Pakistani paper in the international press.
Editorially, TFT holds the view that Pakistan was conceived by the Founding Fathers to be a liberal, modern Muslim state where free thought and free enterprise go hand in hand. TFT opposes obscurantism and dogmatic thinking and stands for the democratic rights of all citizens, regardless of creed or gender.
Stephen P. Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote in his 2004 book, The Idea of Pakistan, that TFT provided "some of the most serious analytical reporting found in Pakistan, or all Asia for that matter. "[1]
The Friday Times' Consulting Editor is Khaled Ahmed, its News Editor Ejaz Haider, Assistant News Editor Mehreen Zahra-Malik, its Features Editors Mehr Fatima Husain, Emi Foulk and Peter Holley. Khaled Ahmed is a Pakistani political analyst He is an editor of Pakistan's weekly Newspaper The Friday Times, and also writes for the newspaper
TFT's in-house artist is Sabir Nazar.
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References
- ^ Cohen, Stephen Philip, The Idea of Pakistan. English The News International Balochistan Post, Quetta Business Recorder The Daily Times is an English language Pakistani Newspaper. Launched on April 9, 2002, Daily Times (DT which is simultaneously (Washington, D. C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2004), p. 95.
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