newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
based in
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
. It is the flagship publication of the '' Daily Express'' media group. It is Pakistan's only internationally affiliated newspaper in a partnership with the '' International New York Times'', the global edition of ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
''. Headquartered in
Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former c ...
, it also prints copy from offices in
Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city ...
,
Islamabad
Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital ...
, and
Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the sixth most populous city in Pakistan, with a population of over 2.3 million. It is situated in the north-west of the country, close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is ...
. It was launched on 12 April 1999, in broadsheet format, with a
news design
News design is the process of arranging material on a newspaper page, according to editorial and graphical guidelines and goals. Main editorial goals include the ordering of news stories by order of importance, while graphical considerations inc ...
distinctive from traditional Pakistani newspapers.
Its editorial stance identifies with
social liberalism
Social liberalism (german: Sozialliberalismus, es, socioliberalismo, nl, Sociaalliberalisme), also known as new liberalism in the United Kingdom, modern liberalism, or simply liberalism in the contemporary United States, left-liberalism ...
, and its readership is generally on the mainstream left of Pakistani political and social opinion. Topics the newspaper covers include
politics
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,
international affairs
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,
economics
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Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...
sports
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, and
culture
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. It runs a glossy called ''Express Tribune Magazine'' on Sunday, which includes
social commentary
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, interviews, and a four-page supplement with recipes, reviews, travel advice, blogs, and technology news. As of 2012, it had the widest online readership in the country locally and internationally.
Part of Express media group
''The Express Tribune'' joins other brands of the Express media group including the
''Daily Express'''' newspaper. It is accompanied by a twenty-four-hour Urdu
news channel
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, Express News, and an Urdu entertainment channel, Express Entertainment. It also contains a technology supplement called '@internet'. It used to run an English-language news channel called Express 24/7, now defunct.
The paper's stated mission is "to defend the liberal values and
egalitarian
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traditions we believe in, and which deserve to be upheld in writing that is both informative and insightful".
Staff
The publisher of ''The Express Tribune'', Bilal Ali Lakhani, is the son of Sultan Ali Lakhani. Its first managing editor, Muhammad Ziauddin, was previously associated with ''
Dawn
Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the appearance of indirect sunlight being scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun's disc has reached 18° below the observer's hori ...
''. Its first editor, Kamal Siddiqi, was previously associated with '' The News''. At present, the executive editor of ''The Express Tribune'' is Fahd Hussain while Naveed Hussain is its editor.
The editorial consultant is Abul Hasanat, previously city editor of ''Dawn''. The op-ed editor is Omar R. Quraishi, who was also previously associated with ''Dawn''. The photographer Athar Khan was previously associated with ''The News Karachi''.
Columnists
Prominent
columnists
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for ''The Express Tribune'' include investigative reporter Naveed Ahmad, former caretaker finance minister
Shahid Javed Burki
Shahid Javed Burki ( ur, ) is a Pakistani-American professional economist who has served as Vice President of the World Bank and as de facto Finance Minister of Pakistan on a caretaker basis. He has written extensively on economic developm ...
, ''The'' ''Express Tribune'' Publisher M. Bilal Lakhani, retired ambassador and former Interior secretary
Rustam Shah Mohmand
Rustam Shah Mohmand (born 15 August 1942 in Charsadda) is a senior Pakistani diplomat, political scientist and politician.
Education
Rustam Shah Mohmand studied civil engineering in Peshawar's College of Engineering and Technology (now Univer ...
, retired lieutenant general and former federal secretary
Talat Masood
Lieutenant-General Talat Masood (Urdu: طلعت مسعُود) is a retired three-star rank army general, a political commentator, and a mechanical engineer.
His career in the military spent in the Pakistan Army Corps of EME as an engineerin ...
, Former General Manager of Gulf News Anwer Mooraj, Urdu scholar and University of Chicago Professor C. M. Naim, Amnesty International (India) Executive Director Aakar Patel, American journalist and academic
Faisal Kutty
Faisal Kutty is a lawyer, academic, writer, public speaker and human rights activist. He is Visiting Associate Professor of LAWS at Southwestern Law School. He served as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and was an Associate Prof ...
, Retired Brigadier
Shaukat Qadir
Shaukat Qadir is an independent Risk and Security Analyst who works generally in South Asia, particularly in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He started his career as a pilot in the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and then moved to the Pakistan Army. He ret ...
, former Executive Editor of ''The Express Tribune'' M. Ziauddin, and Foreign Editor Robin Fernandez. Shahid Mahmood is one of the paper's political cartoonists. In addition to that, various independent journalists also contribute to ''The Express Tribune''. ''The Express Tribune'' also accepts blog posts from individuals.
Access
''The Express Tribune'' is available online via e-paper and through a live website that includes news and blogs. The print edition is available through hawker, via subscription, or at newsstands. The print edition includes a six-day-a-week copy of the Asia edition of the '' International Herald Tribune''.
''The Express Tribune'' is a supporter of The Citizens Foundation (TCF), a local not-for-profit organisation providing education to children in need. Up to 30 percent of subscription profits are donated to the TCF.
Terrorist attack and self-censorship
On December 2, 2013, Express Media Group's offices were targeted in a terrorist attack in which 3 staff workers were killed. Pakistani politician Altaf Hussain condemned the attack and said that it is the obligation of the government to ensure the safety of the people.TTP later took responsibility for the attacks and declared the paper to be propagating against their militant group, citing it as their reason for the attack.
In March 2014, a ''
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' story about what Pakistan officials knew in regard to Osama bin Laden's presence in the country was censored from the front page of the '' International New York Times'' in Pakistan by the local distributor, ''The Express Tribune''.
In 2016, a Chinese court accepted to hear a case regarding the issue of same-sex marriage. As such, the case got substantial coverage. However, in the Pakistani version (''The Express Tribune'') of the ''International New York Times'', the picture accompanying this news story was censored and a blank space was left on the front page of the newspaper. '' Daily Times'' columnist Farman Nawaz raised several questions about this type of journalism in Pakistan.