Daily Mashriq
Daily Mashriq (Urdu: روزنامہ مشرق) is an Urdu-language daily newspaper published from Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[1] The newspaper was founded in 1963 by Inayat Ullah Khan.[1]
In 1964, the newspaper was nationalized by the military regime of Ayub Khan and subsequently, it became part of the National Press Trust (NPT), which was established to manage nationalized independent newspapers in order free media.[1]
In 1967, the NPT re-launched the paper from Peshawar and another edition from Karachi.[1] In 1972, the third edition from Quetta was added.[1] It remained in government hands until the government of Benazir Bhutto abolished the NPT in 1994 and privatized all newspapers.[1]
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