Daily Times (Pakistan)
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Media Times Ltd. |
| Publisher | Salmaan Taseer |
| Editor | Rashed Rahman |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Official website | dailytimes.com.pk |
The Daily Times (DT) is an English language Pakistani newspaper. Launched on April 9, 2002, Daily Times, which is simultaneously published from Lahore (Resident Editor: Zeeshan Bhutta) and Karachi (Resident Editor: Yousaf Rafiq), is edited by Rashed Rahman.
Daily Times is recognized as a newspaper that advocates liberal and secular ideas.[1] The DT has gained popularity as well as notoriety due to some of its editorials, considered controversial in some parts of Pakistan, but lauded in the international press. For example, the Daily Times came under blistering criticism by some in the ethnic Pashtoon community at the end of 2006 when it published a highly controversial editorial “Say no to Naswar”. Editor Rashed Rahman previously worked on the same position for Daily Post, Lahore.
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The main contributors on DT’s Op-Ed Page are Khaled Ahmed, Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi, Dr Saleem Ali, Dr Manzur Ejaz, Abbas Rashid, Brig Shaukat Qadir, Najmuddin Shaikh, Dr Rasul Bakhsh Rais, Uri Avnery, Rami G Khouri, J Sri Raman, Farish A. Noor, William Milam, Munir Attaullah, Moeed Yusuf, Syed Mansoor Hussain, Salman Tarik Kureshi, Syed Mohammad Ali, Dr Ijaz Hussain, Ayeda Naqvi, AVM Shahzad Chaudhry, Dr Muqtedar Khan and several others.
Former contributors include Ejaz Haider, Khalid Hasan, Irfan Husain, Kamran Shafi, Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Ayesha Siddiqa, Lt Gen Talat Masood, Zafar Hilaly and Mehreen Zahra-Malik.
Daily Times Reporters in Islamabad are Zulfiqar Ghuman, Irfan Ghauri, Aizaz Syed, Sajjad Malik, Atif Khan, Sohail Chaudhry, Saadia, Imran Naeem and Jamila Achakzai.
Iqbal Khatak and Malik Siraj Akbar serve as NWFP and Balochistan Bureau Chiefs of Daily Times respectively.
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- ^ PBS Newshour, Nov 23, 1999; Here, "liberal" refers to the use in political theory meaning freedom of thought and speech, not to a kind of bias, as in "liberal press" used to indicate bias by right leaning American commentators. "Secular" is as in secular democracy, as oppossed to a theocracy with its accompanying censorship.
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