Pakistan Herald Limited, commonly known as the Dawn Media Group, is a Pakistani

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based in

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

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. It publishes the ''Dawn'' newspaper and operates a TV channel, radio stations and websites. It is a listed member of All Pakistan Newspapers Society.

Ownership

The

based group is owned by the powerful Haroon and Saigol families. The CEO is Hameed Haroon and its chairman is Amber Haroon Saigol, daughter of the previous chairman Mahmoud Haroon and the 11th richest individual in Pakistan in 1993. A list of the top 10 richest families in Pakistan ranks Saigol family as the 8th richest and the Haroon's the 16th richest as of 2015.

Structure

The Dawn Media Group covers three areas: print media (organised as a separate division called Dawn Group of Newspapers), broadcast media, and internet media: * Print media ** ''

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'', its flagship daily English newspaperList of Member Publications include Dawn newspaper, Herald magazine, Spider magazine on All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) website
. Retrieved 2 April 2018 ** '' The Star'', Pakistan's most popular evening newspaper, now defunct. ** ''

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'', a current affairs monthly magazine in English, now defunct. ** ''

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'', a monthly Internet magazine, now defunct. ** ''Aurora'', a marketing and advertising bi-monthly magazine. ** '' Young World'', children's monthly magazine * Broadcast media ** Dawn News Urdu - 24-hour Urdu News Channel. (720p (16:9, HDTV) **Dawn Films - film distribution division which released the film 7 Din Mohabbat In. ** '' City FM 89'', a music radio channel * Internet media ** Dawn.com, a news website ** DawnNews.Tv, news website in Urdu language **Teeli, digital media brand specialised in entertainment programming **Images.Dawn.com, culture and entertainment website * Exhibitions ** Dawn Education Expo, an annual education festival

'Dawn leaks' controversy

In 2016, one of the journalists working at the ''Dawn'' newspaper, Cyril Almeida, wrote an article that led to the controversy called ''Dawn leaks''. Cyril had reported that during a

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(NSC) meeting between the civilian leaders and the military leaders of Pakistan, some civilian leaders had warned the military leaders about the risk of Pakistan's growing diplomatic isolation due to lack of action against some Pakistani militant groups. Pakistan's military leadership was clearly upset over reports of alleged leaking of this classified information to a Pakistani journalist by some civilian leaders attending that NSC meeting. After the controversy would not die down, Minister of Information Pervaiz Rashid and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi had to step down as a result of this controversy.

Awards and recognition

Hilal-i-Imtiaz The ''Hilal-e-Imtiaz'' (; ), also spelled as ''Hilal-i-Imtiaz,'' is the second-highest (in the order of "Imtiaz") civilian award and honour given to both civilians and military officers of the Pakistan Armed Forces by the Government of Pakist ...

Award by the

President of Pakistan The president of Pakistan () is the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The president is the nominal head of the executive and the supreme commander of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

in 2011 for Hameed Haroon, the CEO of Dawn Media GroupHameed Haroon's Hilal-i-Imtiaz award in 2011
Dawn (newspaper), Published 23 March 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2018

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