Daily Asas (Urdu: روزنامہ اساس) is one of the largest national Urdu newspapers in Pakistan, printed simultaneously in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Faisalabad and Muzaffarabad. This Rawalpindi-based daily was started on 16 July 1995. It is published in Urdu. As of 2011 the editor is Zamir Nafees. Its publisher is the Asas Group of Newspapers.
The Daily Asas consists of 12 pages of news from all over the world, entertainment, sports, politics, current affairs, education, etc.
The Daily Asas also provide a daily internet edition that contains news about Pakistan and the world.
Urdu language columnists include Malik Jamshaid Azam,Zameer Nafees, Riaz Ahmed Chaudary, Abdul Qadir Abbasi and Hafiz Bashir Ahmed. English language columnists include Danish Iftikhar, Sheikh Abdul Majeed, Muhammad Azam Azeem and M. Tauqeer Hafeez.
In the land that was born from
the sperm of winter is
the incarnation of all enchanted fairy tales
An imposing figure
Isolated from an ocean of frozen waves
Trying to unite the sterile earth
with the celestial dome
Like a crystalline bridge of ice
In the claws of four ancient mountains
Ice Castle
Transparent halls filled with
wonder worthless
for those who are sweeping along with
the purposeless flood of wasted feelings.
Priceless treasure
For the children of the serpent dream
In the claws of four ancient mountains
Ice Castle
There they claim life