NAWAIWAQT

NAWAIWAQT

                                     

Nawaiwaqt was started by Hameed Nizami in 1940.

History

The year 1940 was something of a landmark in the life of Hameed Nizami when he launched his fortnightly paper called Nawa-i-Waqt from Lahore on March 23, 1940, as he was prescribed by Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah to support the cause of creation of Pakistan or Tahreek e Pakistan. He was elected President of the Punjab Muslim Student’s Federations for the second time in 1942. He was able to convert his fortnightly Nawa-i-Waqt into a Weekly, a newspaper with which his name will remain associated for ever. On December 15, 1942 the Nawa-i-Waqt became a Weekly. Later on, on July 19, 1944 it was converted into a daily paper. The daily Nawa-i-Waqt came out on July 22, 1944 with a prayer and a message of the Quaid-i-Azam. Hameed Nizami made Nawa-i-Waqt with all its limitations a powerful newspaper for the cause of Muslim League and the Pakistan Movement. He was a clear headed, methodical and devoted journalist. With these qualities he made himself a legend. He rendered a c for the cause of Pakistan during the entire period of Pakistan Movement and, later, for the stability of Pakistan. He was a strong spokesman of democracy in the country. The first Martial Law of 1958 greatly hurt him which proved fatal for his life and he departed in February 1962
Nowadays:
Nawa-i-Waqt is an Urdu daily newspaper in Pakistan. Nawa-i-Waqt started its publishing on March 23, 1940 under the leadership of Hameed Nizami. The tradition is continued by his brother Majid Nizami. Nawa-i-Waqt is one of the largest circulating newspapers in the country. The newspaper frequently publishes controversial articles and has been notable in openly supporting nationalism.It has a special position in Pakistan's media, as the most respected publication in URDU, with firm and constructive views, and excellent news coverage. It is the newspaper of choice for not only those who make decisions, formulate policies but also a great leader in Pakistani media.

Nawa-i-waqt as a national newspaper

Majid Nizami and Nawa-i-Waqt represent the basic ideology of Establishment of Pakistan.. In the last 45 years, Majid Nizami has acquainted his institution with new heights of honour and dignity and made Nawa-i-Waqt a force to be reckoned with. On the intellectual front, his interpretation of the basic ideology by, and for which, Pakistan was formed has been relentlessly promoted and defended; while on the political front Majid Nizami has made Nawa-i-Waqt a mighty political weapon. Under his leadership, it has become the most widely respected and influential paper of the country, which, in the words of Asfandyar Wali, holds vision and commitment to truth as its policy.

Nawa-i-waqt’s influence

The news paper started to support Tahreeq-e-Pakistan (to support the ideology of Pakistan) it was a totally subjective news paper which was in favour of Muslim league in the early days of independence. After independence of Pakistan hameed nizami took charge as a chief editor and founder of nawa-e- waqt publications. Hameed nizami died in 1962 because of heart attack and the charge was in hands of his younger brother majeed nizami who was educated from UK. Now a days nawae waqt is also considered to be a news paper which has opposite views to that of every government coming in power.        

Rise and Fall to the media

In the late 90’s Nawaiwaqt was on its peak until it was cased under by another newspaper JANG. The issue was that NawaiWaqt wrote on their daily news paper in Karachi that “most selling news paper”. Jang group of publications won the case and nawaiwaqt had to face a lot of problem and money crisis afterwards. Later nawaiwaqt also lost their grip in major cities of Punjab like Lahore and Faisalabad.

OTHER EDITIONS

The Nation

The Nation is Lahore-based English-language newspaper in Pakistan. It is published by Majid Nizami and edited by Saleem Bukhari. Arif Nizami, who was the first editor and founder of the news paper was fired by his uncle and the Waqt Media Group editor-in-chief and publisher Majid Nizami. Shireen Mazari has also been the editor of the daily. The nation was started to compete with Jang’s daily The News as said by the people. Arif nizami who was fired by his uncle had started Pakistan today.

The roots of The Nation trace back to 1940 when Nawa-i-Waqt was formed. However, The English paper itself was launched towards the end of 1986 by Arif Nizami. The Nation is internationally the most quoted Pakistani newspaper. The Nation rivals two Karachi-based dailies, Dawn and The News International.

It also provides a special daily feature section, The Nation Plus, which covers the world of glamour, showbiz, entertainment, the performing arts, and literature, as well as a special Young Nation section for the younger reader, and a special Log On section for those interested in information technology. The newspaper is known for its right-wing editorial policies, which are reflected regularly through its anti-USA, anti-India, anti-Israel and pro-Jehadists contents.

FAMILY MAGAZINE

This magazine is a weekly magazine featuring articles and column type stories from different journalist. As for the name mentions it was a totally family entertainment magazine. Some say that this magazine also started to compete with Jang’s AKHBAR E JAHAN which also was at its peak at that time.

NADA-E-MILLAT

This news paper was started to give analysis of current affairs along with criticism and sarcastic articles.

PHOOL

This was a magazine for small kids which gained attention afterwards.

Waqt News channel

                                      Waqt News is a Pakistani news channel owned by Nawa-i-Waqt media group founded by Hameed Nizami. It was launched in early 2008 (December 2007 to be exact) in Pakistan. Nawa-i-Waqt is considered to be one of the most vocal media groups in Pakistan. This group has a long history for being critical of the Federal Government. Due to weak management humble policies towards employers, Waqt News has not been able to gain much popularity among the Pakistani populace but still the media channel is working hard under the supervision of Rameeza Nizami (adopted daughter of Majeed Nizami). The channel, when started, had its media supervised by senior journalist Sajjad Meer for about 4-5 months.

The channel has hired many new faces from local news channels like Royal news and City42.

It hosts many T.V programs as

1.     Salam Pakistan

2.     Nawaiwaqt Today

3.     Mr. Zodiac

4.     Assingment

5.     Karachi say Khybar Tak

6.     Barwaqt

7.     Game beat

Social Views

Ø It gives coverage to India-Pakistan war:-

§  NawaiWaqt has given a lot of air to the burning issue of Pakistan-India war over many issues like Kashmir and water dispute.

Ø Nowadays The Nation is subjective towards Jamat-i-Islami.

Ø Views of The Nation and Nawaiwaqt are same.

Recent journalists in Waqt Media Group

Waqt group of Media had a lot renowned personalities associated with itself. For example:-

1.     Oraya Maqbool Jan

2.     Ata ul Haq Qasmi

3.     Nazeer Naji

4.     Haroon nur Rasheed

5.     Irshad Arif

6.     Aftab Iqbal