Nawa-i-Waqt

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Nawa-i-Waqt (Urdu: روزنامہ نواے وقت) is an Urdu language daily newspaper in Pakistan. Nawa-i-Waqt started its publishing on March 23, 1940 under the leadership of Hamid Nizami. The tradition is continued by his brother Majid Nizami. Nawa-i-Waqt is one of the largest circulating newspapers in the country.

[edit] History

Nawa-I-Waqt first came out on March 29, 1940 as a fortnightly periodical. It had a pro-American and anti-communist stance. The editors were Hamid Nizami, a student of Islamia College, and Shabbar Hasan, a student of King Edward Medical University. They were influenced by a nationalist periodical Aligarh Opinion, which was started by Syed Sibt-e-Hasan, Khawaja Ahmed Abbas and Dr. Ashraf who were close friends of Dr. Shabbar Hasan. After two weeks, the fortnightly was turned to a weekly and finally to a daily in 1944. Hamid Nizami was interested in literature from his student life and used to write stories.

[edit] Columnists

Among the columnists of the newspaper are Ataul Haq Kasmi, Dr. Ajmal Niazi, Aftab Iqbal, Bushra Rehman, Rafi Dogar, Chaudhry Asghar Ali Waraich and Nusrat Mirza, Dr.Syed Mehboob & Irfan Asghar

and IRFAN SIDDIQUI, one of the most polular columnists of Pakistan