The Daily Jang (روزنامہ جنگ) is
the Urdu language newspaper.
The Daily Jang is published by
the Jang Group of Newspapers.
The Group's flagship Jang is
Pakistan's national daily. It is
published in Urdu from Karachi,
Lahore, Rawalpindi, Quetta and
London. It has a circulation of
over 800,000 copies per day.
Mir Khalil ur Rehman was the
founder of the newspaper and now
his younger son Mir Shakil ur
Rehman is the continuing the
publish of this paper .
Jang Group of Newspapers
(colloquially known as simply
Jang Group) is Pakistan’s
largest group of newspapers and
the publisher of the Urdu
newspaper the Daily Jang (جنگ),
The News International, Mag
Weekly, Awam.
The News International is the
second largest English language
newspaper in Pakistan. The News
has an ABC certified circulation
of 140,000. It is published from
Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi/Islamabad.
An overseas edition is published
from London that caters to the
Pakistani community in the
United Kingdom and plans are
currently underway to start
publication in New York City,
USA.
The News is published by the
Jang Group of Newspapers,
publisher of the Daily Jang (جنگ)
the largest Urdu language
newspaper in the world. Mir
Khalil ur Rehman was the founder
of the newspaper and his younger
son, Mir Shakil ur Rehman, is
the present owner.
Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman was the
founder and editor of the Jang
newspaper which has currently
grown to be the most popular
Urdu newspaper in Pakistan.
When he was a college student in
1940, he started a newspaper for
Muslims in pre-partition
Hindustan fighting in World War
II. He called it Jang, or War.
This was not an exaggerated name
as some believed, but a
statement against war and so Mir
Khalil-ur-Rehman made it clear
that he was doing this for the
soldiers and not to encourage
the Second World War. After the
creation of Pakistan, Mir
Khalil-ur-Rahman took a loan of
5000 rupees and re-started the
Daily Jang from Karachi. He
continued to work at the
newspaper till his death in
1992.
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