''The News International'', published in broadsheet size, is one of the largest
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newspapers
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in
Pakistan
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. It is published daily from
Karachi
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,
Lahore
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Islamabad
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. An overseas edition is published from
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''The News International'' and its Sunday version ''The News on Sunday'' is published by the
Jang Group of Newspapers
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editor-in-chief
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The financial section of ''The News International'' contains stories taken from the British daily ''
Financial Times
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''. The weekend edition of ''The News International'' also contains a two-page magazine in the Chinese language that is produced and published by a Chinese company based in
Islamabad
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.
Editors
Talat Aslam, a senior journalist and former editor of ''Herald'', is currently serving as the senior editor at ''The News''. Muhammad Umer heads the Karachi city section of the newspaper.
Staff
The reporters and regular contributors for ''The News International'' are:
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Shamshad Ahmad
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* Sameen Amer
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Ayaz Amir
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I ...
* Masood Hasan
* Aamna Isani
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Roedad Khan
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Shafqat Mahmood
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* Lt. General
Talat Masood
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* Sultan Mehmood
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Hamid Mir
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* Jamil Nasir
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Sania Nishtar
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Tasneem Noorani
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Education
Tasneem attended Pakistan Air Force School Sargodha for high school from 1956 to 1 ...
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Zia Ur Rehman
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Rehman was born and raised in Karachi, th ...
* Mudassir Rizvi
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Ghazi Salahuddin
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He is brother of renowned educationist and Pakistan’s first woman to do PhD in nuclear ...
*
Farrukh Saleem
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He has published articles on geopolitics, economic competition and educatio ...
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Ikram Sehgal
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Personal life
Sehgal was born to a Punjabi father and Bengali mother. On his mother's side, ...
* Sabir Shah
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Mosharraf Zaidi
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Fasi Zaka
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Zaka attended Somerville College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He rose to prominence for his sa ...
* Salaar Khan
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Rahimullah Yusufzai
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*
Nasim Zehra
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Education and career
Zehra studied business at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan and later studied ...
Sections
The magazine sections of the newspaper include:
* Instep: The entertainment section of the newspaper. Published every Sunday. Previously had a daily edition called Instep Today that was discontinued in 2020.
* Us Magazine: Youth magazine published every Friday.
* You: Women's magazine published every Tuesday.
See also
*
List of newspapers in Pakistan
The total number of newspapers are 707 as 2019 according to Pakistan bureau of statistic.Following is a list of newspapers in Pakistan.
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