Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, founded DAWN. He wanted his public to be informative of the happenings in the
country. At that time a quality English
daily was not present. Since then DAWN has come of age and has proved to be a reliable source of information of all sorts. DAWN has evolved overtime to be the top English language
newspaper of country. It has become more than a newspaper and has started sponsoring many lifestyle events throughout country.
It is published by the Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt.) Limited (PHPL). It started its
Publication from a single news paper to now a array of publications and also online version of the daily DAWN catering to a vast public. Publication of PHPL include STAR (an English language evening daily), HERALD (a
monthly current affairs
magazine), SPIDER (a monthly Internet magazine) and AURORA (a marketing and advertising based bi-monthly magazine). The web publication of DAWN is the pioneering of use of web as medium for
News source in Pakistan.
For more than five decades, DAWN with its firm commitment for excellence, has created business standards and built institutions needed for the expansion and growth of free press, through this it has become the most respected newspaper. It has a track record of honesty, accuracy and being impartial.
It now enjoys a total readership base in excess of 759,000 with a weekday circulation of over 138,000. The DAWN is the most widely circulated newspaper of country, enjoying a nation wide influence. It is read every morning by policy and decision makers both in private and public sectors at all levels of the spectrum of English news paper reading population of country. It has always been at the forefront of the history making of the country. It is no doubt the first choice for information by so many that it has become the no 1 English daily of Pakistan.
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