Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Dawn Media Group |
Founder(s) | Muhammad Ali Jinnah[1] |
Editor | Zaffar Abbas |
Founded | 26 October 1941 |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
ISSN | 1563-9444 |
Website | dawn.com |
Dawn is a Pakistani English-language newspaper that was launched in British India by Jinnah in 1941. It is the largest English newspaper in Pakistan, and is widely considered the country's newspaper of record.[2][3][4] Dawn is the flagship publication of the Dawn Media Group, which also owns local radio station CityFM89 as well as the marketing and media magazine Aurora.[5]
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding father, launched the newspaper in Delhi on 26 October 1941, with the goal of establishing it as a mouthpiece for the All-India Muslim League. The first issue was printed at Latifi Press on 12 October 1942.[6] Based in Karachi, it also maintains offices in Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta and the capital city of Islamabad, in addition to having correspondents abroad.[7] As of 2010[update], it has a weekday circulation of over 109,000.[8] The newspaper's current chief editor is Zaffar Abbas.