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| editor = Raza Rumi (since 2021)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/1170547-will-pti-sic-be-able-to-take-leader-of-opposition-slot-easily |title=Will PTI-SIC be able to take leader of opposition slot — easily? |first=Zebunnisa |last=Burki |date=March 21, 2024 |website=[[The News International]]}}</ref>
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'''''The Friday Times''''' (TFT) is a Pakistani [[English-language]] independent newsweekly, based in [[Lahore]], [[Pakistan]].<ref>[http://www.apns.com.pk/member_publication/index.php The Friday Times (weekly newspaper) listed as Member Publication on All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) website] Retrieved 28 September 2020</ref><ref name=CPJ/>
'''''The Friday Times''''' ('''TFT''') is a Pakistani [[English-language]] online publication based in [[Lahore]], Pakistan.<ref>[http://www.apns.com.pk/member_publication/index.php The Friday Times (weekly newspaper) listed as Member Publication on All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) website] Retrieved 28 September 2020</ref><ref name=CPJ/>


==History and profile==
==History==
''The Friday Times'' was first published in May 1989.<ref name=TFT>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/aboutus.php|title=The good ol' bad days |author=Najam Sethi|work=The Friday Times|url-status=live|archivedate=9 September 2012 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6AY63D230?url=http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/aboutus.php|accessdate=30 September 2020}}</ref> TFT's founder-editor [[Najam Sethi]] and publisher [[Jugnu Mohsin]], a husband-and-wife team, are recipients of international awards conferred by [[Amnesty International]] and the [[Committee to Protect Journalists]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/1999/06/cpj-disturbed-by-the-persecution-of-najam-sethi-in.php |title=CPJ Disturbed by the Persecution of Najam Sethi in Pakistan|date=23 June 1999|publisher=The Committee to Protect Journalists|url-status=live|archivedate=9 September 2012|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6AY6AVfuN?url=http://cpj.org/1999/06/cpj-disturbed-by-the-persecution-of-najam-sethi-in.php|accessdate=30 September 2020}}</ref><ref name=CPJ>{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/1999/awards.php|title=1999 Awards – Announcement|year=1999 |publisher=The Committee to Protect Journalists|archivedate=7 September 2012|url-status=live |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6AV2DmmJd?url=http://cpj.org/awards/1999/awards.php|accessdate=30 September 2020}}</ref> In 2009, Sethi also won the [[World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award|Golden Pen of Freedom]], the annual press freedom prize of the [[World Association of Newspapers]].<ref name=WAN>{{cite web|url=http://www.wan-press.org/article17978.html|title=Pakistani Editor Awarded 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom|publisher=World Association of Newspapers website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6AV7yaJFZ?url=http://www.wan-press.org/article17978.html |archive-date=7 September 2012|accessdate=30 September 2020}}</ref>
''The Friday Times'' was first published in May 1989.<ref name=TFT>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/aboutus.php|title=The good ol' bad days|author=Najam Sethi|work=The Friday Times newspaper|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922042421/http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/aboutus.php|access-date=29 September 2024}}</ref> TFT's founder-editor [[Najam Sethi]] and publisher [[Jugnu Mohsin]], a husband-and-wife team, are recipients of international awards conferred by [[Amnesty International]] and the [[Committee to Protect Journalists]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/1999/06/cpj-disturbed-by-the-persecution-of-najam-sethi-in.php|title=CPJ Disturbed by the Persecution of Najam Sethi in Pakistan|date=23 June 1999|work=The Committee to Protect Journalists|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904044739/http://cpj.org/1999/06/cpj-disturbed-by-the-persecution-of-najam-sethi-in.php|access-date=29 September 2024}}</ref><ref name=CPJ>{{cite web|url=http://cpj.org/awards/1999/awards.php|title=1999 Awards – Announcement|year=1999 |publisher=The Committee to Protect Journalists|archivedate=3 September 2012|url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903172547/http://www.cpj.org/awards/1999/awards.php|access-date=29 September 2024}}</ref> In 2009, Sethi also won the [[World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award|Golden Pen of Freedom]], the annual press freedom prize of the [[World Association of Newspapers]].<ref name=WAN>{{cite web|url=http://www.wan-press.org/article17978.html|title=Pakistani Editor Awarded 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom|publisher=World Association of Newspapers website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513055613/http://www.wan-press.org/article17978.html |archive-date=13 May 2013|accessdate=30 September 2020}}</ref>


According to Sethi, he first conceived of the idea for an independent Pakistani newspaper out of frustration: while briefly imprisoned in 1984 on trumped-up copyright charges, no newspapers had protested his arrest. The following year, he and Mohsin applied for a publishing license under Mohsin's name, since Sethi was "too notorious an offender" to be approved. Called into [[Nawaz Sharif]]'s office to discuss the application, Mohsin told him that she intended to publish "a social chit chat thing, you know, with lots of pictures of parties and weddings". It was finally approved in 1987, but Mohsin requested a one-year delay to avoid the first issue coming out during the dictatorship of General [[Zia ul Haq]]. The paper's first issue appeared in May 1989.<ref name=TFT/>
According to Sethi, he first conceived of the idea for an independent Pakistani newspaper out of frustration: while briefly imprisoned in 1984 on trumped-up copyright charges, no newspapers had protested his arrest. The following year, he and Mohsin applied for a publishing license (called 'declaration' under the relevant Pakistani press law) under Mohsin's name, since Sethi was "too notorious an offender" to be approved. Called into [[Nawaz Sharif]]'s office to discuss the application, Mohsin told him that she intended to publish "a social chit chat thing, you know, with lots of pictures of parties and weddings". It was finally approved in 1987, but Mohsin requested a one-year delay to avoid the first issue coming out during the dictatorship of General [[Zia ul Haq]]. The paper's first issue appeared in May 1989.<ref name=TFT/>


During the rule of President [[Pervez Musharraf]], Mohsin wrote a monthly humor column titled "Mush and Bush" featuring fictional conversations between the president and US President [[George W. Bush]]. She had previously targeted Prime Minister Sharif with a column for his "dim and authoritarian personality, his intolerance of dissent".<ref name=WP>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11344641.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611052911/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11344641.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2014|title=How Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically|author=Emily Wax|date=28 November 2007|newspaper=The Washington Post |publisher={{Subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}|accessdate=28 September 2020}}</ref> Her sister, [[Moni Mohsin]], satirizes the country's social elites with another column for the paper, "Diary of a Social Butterfly".<ref name=WP />
During the rule of President [[Pervez Musharraf]], Mohsin wrote a monthly humor column titled "Mush and Bush" featuring fictional conversations between the president and US President [[George W. Bush]]. She had previously targeted Prime Minister Sharif with a column for his "dim and authoritarian personality, his intolerance of dissent".<ref name=WP>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11344641.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611052911/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-11344641.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2014|title=How Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically|author=Emily Wax|date=28 November 2007|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=29 September 2024}}</ref> Her sister, [[Moni Mohsin]], satirizes the country's social elites with another column for the paper, "Diary of a Social Butterfly".<ref name=WP />


Mohsin advocates a [[liberalism|liberal]] Pakistan and opposes [[religious fundamentalism]]. In January 2006, she argued for the right of women to participate in a [[marathon]] wearing shorts instead the [[salwar kameez]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-982300041.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611052916/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-982300041.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2014|title=Pak women run to shake off their country's Taliban past|date=30 January 2006|work=Hindustan Times|publisher={{Subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}|accessdate=30 September 2020}}</ref> She later became a major critic of the former cricketer [[Imran Khan]]'s entry into politics, stating that he "doesn't really have a firm grip on history, or politics, or economy ... He would be very easily led and misled."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-285874086|title=King Khan|author=Mike Giglio|date=18 April 2012|work=[[Newsweek]]|publisher=|via=|url-access=|accessdate=}}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref>
Mohsin advocates a [[liberalism|liberal]] Pakistan and opposes [[religious fundamentalism]]. In January 2006, she argued for the right of women to participate in a [[marathon]] wearing shorts instead the [[salwar kameez]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-982300041.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611052916/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-982300041.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2014|title=Pak women run to shake off their country's Taliban past|date=30 January 2006|work=Hindustan Times|access-date=29 September 2024}}</ref> She later became a major critic of the former cricketer [[Imran Khan]]'s entry into politics, stating that he "doesn't really have a firm grip on history, or politics, or economy ... He would be very easily led and misled."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-285874086|title=King Khan|author=Mike Giglio|date=18 April 2012|work=[[Newsweek]]|publisher=|via=|url-access=|accessdate=}}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==
* ''[[Daily Times (Pakistan)|Daily Times]]''
* [[List of newspapers in Pakistan]]
* [[List of newspapers in Pakistan]]


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Latest revision as of 23:26, 29 September 2024

The Friday Times
EditorRaza Rumi (since 2021)[1]
Former editorsNajam Sethi (1989–2021)
FormatOnline
Print (defunct)
FounderJugnu Mohsin
Najam Sethi
Founded1987
First issueMay 1989; 35 years ago (1989-05)
Final issue2021
CompanyNaya Daur Media
CountryPakistan
Based inLahore
LanguageEnglish
Websitethefridaytimes.com

The Friday Times (TFT) is a Pakistani English-language online publication based in Lahore, Pakistan.[2][3]

History

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The Friday Times was first published in May 1989.[4] TFT's founder-editor Najam Sethi and publisher Jugnu Mohsin, a husband-and-wife team, are recipients of international awards conferred by Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists.[5][3] In 2009, Sethi also won the Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers.[6]

According to Sethi, he first conceived of the idea for an independent Pakistani newspaper out of frustration: while briefly imprisoned in 1984 on trumped-up copyright charges, no newspapers had protested his arrest. The following year, he and Mohsin applied for a publishing license (called 'declaration' under the relevant Pakistani press law) under Mohsin's name, since Sethi was "too notorious an offender" to be approved. Called into Nawaz Sharif's office to discuss the application, Mohsin told him that she intended to publish "a social chit chat thing, you know, with lots of pictures of parties and weddings". It was finally approved in 1987, but Mohsin requested a one-year delay to avoid the first issue coming out during the dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq. The paper's first issue appeared in May 1989.[4]

During the rule of President Pervez Musharraf, Mohsin wrote a monthly humor column titled "Mush and Bush" featuring fictional conversations between the president and US President George W. Bush. She had previously targeted Prime Minister Sharif with a column for his "dim and authoritarian personality, his intolerance of dissent".[7] Her sister, Moni Mohsin, satirizes the country's social elites with another column for the paper, "Diary of a Social Butterfly".[7]

Mohsin advocates a liberal Pakistan and opposes religious fundamentalism. In January 2006, she argued for the right of women to participate in a marathon wearing shorts instead the salwar kameez.[8] She later became a major critic of the former cricketer Imran Khan's entry into politics, stating that he "doesn't really have a firm grip on history, or politics, or economy ... He would be very easily led and misled."[9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Burki, Zebunnisa (21 March 2024). "Will PTI-SIC be able to take leader of opposition slot — easily?". The News International.
  2. ^ The Friday Times (weekly newspaper) listed as Member Publication on All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) website Retrieved 28 September 2020
  3. ^ a b "1999 Awards – Announcement". The Committee to Protect Journalists. 1999. Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  4. ^ a b Najam Sethi. "The good ol' bad days". The Friday Times newspaper. Archived from the original on 22 September 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  5. ^ "CPJ Disturbed by the Persecution of Najam Sethi in Pakistan". The Committee to Protect Journalists. 23 June 1999. Archived from the original on 4 September 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Pakistani Editor Awarded 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom". World Association of Newspapers website. Archived from the original on 13 May 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  7. ^ a b Emily Wax (28 November 2007). "How Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  8. ^ "Pak women run to shake off their country's Taliban past". Hindustan Times. 30 January 2006. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  9. ^ Mike Giglio (18 April 2012). "King Khan". Newsweek.[dead link‍]
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