Emira
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- Jul 8, 2018
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Dawn Media Group
Dawn is Pakistan's oldest, leading and most widely read English language newspaper. Dawn joins Asia News Network, The Daily Star, as one of the country's three largest English-language dailies, it is the flagship of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, published by Pakistan Herald Publications, which also owns the The Herald Pakistan, a magazine, Spider (internet magazine), an information technology magazine and ''Aurora'', an advertising, marketing and media magazine.
Dawn was founded by "Quaid-i-Azam" Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi, British Raj India, on 26 October 1941 as a mouthpiece for the All-India Muslim League. The first issue was printed at Latifi Press on 12 October 1942. The newspaper has offices in Karachi, Lahore, and the federal capital Islamabad, and representatives abroad. The current editor of ''Dawn'' is Zaffar Abbas.
Ownership
The Karachi based group is owned by the powerful Haroon and Saigol families. The CEO is Hameed Haroon, and its chairman is Amber Haroon Saigol, daughter of the previous chairman Mahmoud Haroon and the 11th richest individual in Pakistan in 1993 (the only year that the Pakistani government has published the wealth of the country's richest citizens). A list of the top 10 richest families in Pakistan, ranks the Saigol family as the 8th richest and the Haroons as the 16th richest family as of 2011.
