The Lahore Press Club () is an association of primarily news

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, and also includes academics, business people and members of the public service sector in

Lahore Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

. It is the biggest press club in the country, with a membership of 3250, and is well known for its gatherings with invited speakers from public life. Veteran journalist Raja Aurangzeb played a major role in convincing Punjab former chief minister late Ghulam Haider Wyne to allot land for the Lahore Press Club at Shimla Pahari. Mr Arshad Ansari is the only journalist in Pakistan who got elected 11 times as the president of Lahore press club and has done remarkable work for the journalist community in Pakistan. In 2015, the chief minister of Punjab

Shahbaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who has served as the 20th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan since March 2024, having previously been in the role between Ap ...

expressed his views about the role of journalists in society while addressing the oath-taking ceremony of the newly elected governing body of the Lahore Press Club. He said, "...the role of the journalist community was of vital importance for promoting harmony and tolerance in society for eliminating terrorism." It is also a convenient place for bringing up current issues for discussion facing journalism and news media in Pakistan. This sometimes leads to public protests in front of the Lahore Press Club building as is evident in this news item in a major newspaper. Elections for the Lahore Press Club office-holders were held at Lahore's

Alhamra Arts Council Alhamra Arts Council (also known as the Alhamra Hall, Alhamra Cultural Complex, Alhamra Art Gallery and Lahore Arts Council) was designed by Nayyar Ali Dada and completed in 1992. The Alhamra Arts Council is located on a colonial-period road ...

in 2014.

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, was awarded a lifetime membership in the club in 2014.Ali Zafar gets lifetime membership of Lahore Press club
''The Indian Express'' newspaper, Published 16 December 2014, Retrieved 5 March 2015 ]

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*http://lahorepressclub.com.pk/, Homepage, Lahore Press Club, account suspended December 2019 *http://lahorepressclub.com.pk/category/members-event/, Pictures and videoclip of a 'Mango Party' (a social event) by the club members at the Lahore Press Club grounds on YouTube Organisations based in Lahore Mass media in Lahore Press clubs Journalism in Pakistan {{Pakistan-stub