Type Daily newspaper Editor-in-chief Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami Language Urdu | Format Broadsheet Founded 1997 Headquarters Lahore, Pakistan | |
The Daily Pakistan (Urdu: روزنامہ پاکستان) is an Urdu daily newspaper in Pakistan. Mr. Mujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami is currently its chief editor and it has a circulation of over 500,000 copies per day. Daily Pakistan is currently published from Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Multan and Peshawar simultaneously. This Lahore-based daily was started in December 1990. During Z. A. Bhutto's democratic rule, he suffered hardships and was put behind the bars. Prior to taking over Daily Pakistan, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Weekly Zindagi, Lower Mall, Lahore.
The newspaper is known for its writer Hamid Mir who interviewed Osama bin Laden for the Daily in 1997. Asghar Abdullah, Tariq Mehmood Ahsan, and Saleem Shahab have also been contributing articles for Weekly Zindagi Magazine. Nauman Tasleem Khan is web editor of the Daily Pakistan.
Daily Pakistan also established an English version of its news publication in 2015, titled Daily Pakistan Global. The section is headed by Sarfraz Ali, who has a diversified experience of working with numerous Pakistani and international media houses. His expertise ranges from newspapers to TV and new media.