The Frontier Post
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| Type | Daily Newspaper and Magazine |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Frontier Publications Pvt Ltd |
| Founder(s) | Rehmat Shah Afridi |
| Editor-in-chief | Bilal Afridi |
| Editor | Jalil Afridi |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Peshawar, Pakistan |
| Website | thefrontierpost |
The Frontier Postis an independentEnglish languagedaily newspaper founded inPeshawar,Pakistan, in 1985. It publishes fromPeshawar,Lahore,Islamabad,Karachi,andQuetta.
History
[edit]When the paper was founded in 1985, there were no prominent journalists based in the area, and its original editor Aziz Siddiqi was neither an ethnicPukhtoon(the dominant population of Peshawar) nor from a Pukhtoon area.[1]FormerKhyber PakhtunkhwagovernorFazle Haqalong with several entrepreneurs were engaged in founding the paper.[2][3][4]
The founder, chief editor and publisher,Rehmat Shah Afridi,has been termed a "prisoner of conscience" byAmnesty Internationaldue to his longstanding struggle for democracy and media freedom in Pakistan;[5]Afridi was arrested in 1999.[6]Jalil Afridi had been running The Frontier Post as its Managing Editor since 1999.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^Zubeda Jalalzai; David Jefferess (6 June 2011).Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building.Duke University Press. pp. 86–.ISBN0-8223-5014-9.
- ^Shahid Javed Burki (19 March 2015).Historical Dictionary of Pakistan.Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 200–.ISBN978-1-4422-4148-0.
- ^"Founder of" The Frontier Post "Rehmat Shah Afridi passes away".Dunya News.2023-12-10.Retrieved2023-12-11.
- ^Desk, NNPS (2023-12-10)."Minister condoles demise of Rehmat Shah Afridi".Retrieved2023-12-11.
- ^Shah, Waseem Ahmad (2023-12-11)."Frontier Post founder Rehmat Shah Afridi laid to rest".DAWN.COM.Retrieved2023-12-11.
- ^Alain Labrousse; Laurent Laniel (29 June 2013).The World Geopolitics of Drugs, 1998/1999.Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 69–.ISBN978-94-017-3505-6.
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