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 Najam
Sethi.
Daily Times is recognized as a newspaper that advocates
liberal and
secular ideas. 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. Editor
Najam Sethi
is a recipient of the 1999
CPJ International Press
Freedom Award. 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”.
Staff
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.
See also
References
- 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.
- CPJ International Press Freedom Awards[1] (needed a direct
link)
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