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Nawa-i-waqt

Pakistani newspaper

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Pakistani newspaper

Field	Value
name	Nawaiwaqt
logo	Nawaiwaqt-logo.jpg
image	[[File:Nawa-i-Waqt (22 May 2010).gif	175px	border]]
caption	The front page of Nawa-i-waqt, May 22, 2010
type	Daily newspaper
format	Print, online
founded	Founded in 1940 by Hameed Nizami
owners	* Majid Nizami Trust

headquarters	Lahore, Pakistan
political_position	Center-Right-Wing
Vigorously supported Pakistan Movement
website
language	Urdu
deputy_editor	Saeed Aasi
editor	Rameeza Majid Nizami

Rameeza Nizami Vigorously supported Pakistan Movement

Nawa-i-Waqt or Nawaiwaqt (; ) is one of the largest circulating Urdu-language daily newspaper in Pakistan.

This newspaper is currently owned by 'Majid Nizami Trust'. It was founded by Hameed Nizami and launched under his leadership on 23 March 1940.

Hameed's younger brother Majid Nizami was the chief editor and publisher of Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications until he died in 2014 and then this group became the property of Majid Nizami Trust created by Majid Nizami himself in his lifetime.

In 2016, Rameeza (adopted daughter of Majid Nizami) and the biological daughter of Mian Arif and Ghazala Arif was elected as the Managing Director of Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications by the trustees of Majid Nizami Trust and she was also elected as the Senior Vice President of All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS).

History

Nawa-i-Waqt first came out on 23 March 1940, as a fortnightly periodical. It passionately supported the All India Muslim League. In those days, it had a pro-American and anti-communist stance. The editors were Afaq Hussain Johar, 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 launched by Syed Sibte Hassan, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Ashraf who were close friends of Shabbar Hasan. On 15 December 1942, the fortnightly was turned into a weekly and finally into a daily newspaper on 19 July 1944.

The group which is owned by 'Majid Nizami Trust' has several publications including the flagship Nawa-i-Waqt newspaper in Urdu and The Nation newspaper in English, Nida-i-Millat, a family magazine, and the monthly children's magazine, Phool.

This newspaper had vigorously supported the Pakistan Movement for the creation of Pakistan.

Waqt News

Nawa-i-Waqt Group also operated a 24-hour news channel, Waqt News, from 2007 to 2018.

Staff and columnists

Arif Nizami (son of the newspaper founder Hameed Nizami) was a long-time editor of the English-language daily newspaper The Nation but resigned due to differences with his uncle Majid Nizami before his uncle's death in 2014.

Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications

Magazines and newspapers published by this company are:

Phool - monthly magazine for children in Urdu language
- Family Magazine* - Weekly for Women in Urdu language
Nida-i-Millat - a weekly magazine in Urdu language
The Nation - A daily English newspaper from Lahore, Pakistan

References

(26 February 2012). "Hameed Nizami (founder of Nawa-i-Waqt) gives new face to journalism". The Free Library website via Asia Pulse magazine.
"List of Urdu newspapers in Pakistan including Nawa-i-Waqt".
Fraaz. "Hameed Nizami, a man of simple words". Pakistan Today newspaper.
Intikhab Hanif. (27 July 2014). "Majid Nizami laid to rest". Dawn newspaper.
"Profile of Majid Nizami (1928-2014)".
(31 March 2016). "Rameeza elected as Senior Vice President of 'All Pakistan Newspapers Society'". Daily Pakistan newspaper.
Zia-ur-Rahman Zabeeh. "Hameed Nizami profile and his 'Pioneers of Freedom' commemorative postage stamp".
"Profile of Nawa-i-Waqt newspaper".
Mahmood Idrees. (October 30, 2018). "'Financial woes' push Waqt News to fire all employees". Daily Pakistan newspaper.
"Profile of Arif Nizami". Pakistan Times Online (Pakistantimes.com) website.

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