Hill Post

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The Hill Post was a weekly newspaper published from Abbottabad city on Sundays until 2002 and promoted the culture and civilization of Circle Bakote, Galyat and Murree Hills.

It started its circulation in 4th April 1988 from Karachi as a Photostat edited by well known journalist Mohammed Obaidullah Alvi and his cousin Syed Mobashir Husain Shah, at first fortnightly, then weekly after a few weeks. It cultivated a nursery of young journalist who are playing active role in National electronic as well as prient journalism. It also promoted the values and traditions of hilly areas.

It was the first regular and printed journalistic piece of the region. The other editors was Ishteaq Abbasi, Talib H Abbasi, Zahid H Mehrwi, and Nazar Abbasi. Correspondents were Tariq N Abbasi, Zafir Abbasi, Nawid Akram Abbasi, A W Hazarvi and Allah Ditta Abbasi (now AD Abbasi and editor of weekly Hill News Islamabad). It became popular among Hillians of Circle Bakote and Murree who were settled in Karachi and it reached a circulation of 8000 copies per week in 1990-91. A competitor weekly Akhbar-e-Kohsar came in to being in 1989, edited by Saeed Abbasi. The Hill Post ceased publication in 2002.