The ''Daily Jang'' ( ur, ) is an

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written 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 politics, business, spor ...

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 ...

, Pakistan. It is the oldest newspaper of Pakistan in continuous publication since its foundation in 1939, first published during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

, hence the name (Jang) translating to "war" in Urdu. Its current group chief executive and editor-in-chief is

Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, in short MSR, (born 8 January 1957) is a Pakistani media mogul and business man. He is the founder of 24-hour news cycle network, ''Geo TV''. In addition, he is the owner of the Jang Group of Newspapers and the News Inte ...

. Past editors and contributors have included

Mahmood Shaam Mahmood Shaam ( ur, ) born Tariq Mahmood ( ur, ) on 5 February 1940, is a Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet, writer and news analyst. After serving Pakistan's largest newspaper Jang Group for more than 16 years continuously as Grou ...

Nazir Naji Nazir Naji ( ur, نذیر ناجی) (b. 15 August 1937 is a Pakistani senior journalist and Urdu columnist. He served 27 years for ''Daily Jang'' as a senior Urdu columnist. Career Nazir Naji was formerly a chairman of the Pakistan Academy of ...

and

Shafi Aqeel Shafi Aqeel (1930 – 6 September 2013) was a Pakistani journalist, writer, poet, art critic and translator. He had edited and co-edited a number of magazines, and contributed columns on art and literature to the national Urdu language newspap ...

."Jang Group of Newspapers intimidated by Government"
Committee to Protect Journalists website, December 15, 1998. Retrieved July 17, 2018. Its current list of columnists includes Saleem Safi, Hassan Nisar, Ghazi Salahuddin, Wajahat Masood, Hafeezullah Niazi, Irshad Bhatti, Mazhar Barlas, Ataul Haq Qasmi, Ansar Abbasi, Anwar Ghazi, Ali Moeen Nawazish and Yasir Pirzada. ''Jang'' is published by the Jang Group of Newspapers. It was originally published as a weekly to raise political awareness among Muslims living in British India. The group's flagship ''Daily Jang'' is Pakistan's most prominent Urdu daily newspaper. The group also owns ''Geo News'', arguably the most popular news channel in Pakistan. It is published from Karachi,

Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second List of cities in Pakistan by population, most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th List of largest cities, most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is th ...

Rawalpindi Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan ...

Quetta Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه‎) is the tenth most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in south-west of the country close to the International border with Afghanistan. It is the capital of th ...

Multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the ol ...

and

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

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