The Daily Times (DT) is an English language Pakistani newspaper. Launched on April 9, 2002, Daily Times, which is simultaneously published from Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi, is edited by Rashed Rahman. The paper was owned by the late Governor of Punjab and Pakistan Peoples Party stalwart Salmaan Taseer.
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 ‘yes’ to ‘naswar’!”. Editor Rashed Rahman joined Daily Times in November 2009 and has previously worked as Executive Editor for English dailies The Post and The Nation.
Columnists [edit]
The main contributors of Daily Times include:
- Ali Salman Alvi
- Dr Hassan Askari Rizvi
- Zafar Hilaly
- Ishtiaq Ahmed
- Munir Attaullah
- Babar Ayaz
- Gulmina Bilal Ahmad
- Dr Mahjabeen Islam
- Farrukh Khan Pitafi
- Dr Manzur Ejaz
- Mehmal Sarfraz (Former Op-Ed Editor Daily Times)
- Mehr Tarar (Assistant Editor Daily Times)
- Zaair Hussain
- Garga Chatterjee
- J Sri Raman
- Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
- Ali K Chishti
- Andleeb Abbas
- Ishrat Saleem
- Rakesh Mani
- Abbas Rashid
- Salman Tarik Kureshi
- Naeem Tahir
- Shahzad Chaudhry
- Dr Syed Mansoor Hussain
- Yasser Latif Hamdani
- Reem Wasay
- Ralph Shaw
- Dr. Amjad Parvez
- Iftikhar Ahmad
- Mohammad Jamil
- Shaheer Ahmad Piracha
- Afrah Jamal
- Dr Haider Shah
- Dr Lal khan
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References [edit]
- ^ 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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