The Star (Pakistan)
The Star was an English-language evening newspaper in Pakistan that ceased publication in 2005.
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | Dawn Group of Newspapers[1] |
Editor | Kamal Majidulla Imran Aslam in the 1980s Asif Noorani |
Founded | 1949 |
Headquarters | Haroon House, Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed Road, Saddar, Karachi, Pakistan |
Website | DAWN.com (Dawn Group of Newspapers) |
Early history
The paper was founded in Calcutta on 17 August 1932, as The Star of India.[2] Watson describes it as 'the first daily paper championing the Muslim cause and printed in English … to appear in the city'.[3] As might be expected from a paper with this editorial bent, it frequently covered issues related to the Pakistan Movement.[4]
Following the Partition of India in 1947, the paper moved to Karachi and began publishing there—as the Dawn's evening edition—in August 1949.[2] It appears also to have had an office in Dhaka in the 1930s or 1940s.[5] The paper folded in 2005.[6]
A number of significant figures in early Pakistan and the Pakistan Movement contributed to the paper, including Abul Hassan Isphani, Mirza Ahmad Ispahani, and Adamjee Haji Dawood.[5] Altaf Husain published under the pseudonym 'A Mofussil Muslim';[7] Raghib Assan, an associate of Muhammad Iqbal, frequently wrote for the paper.[8][9] In 1933, the paper published an article titled 'Grievances of Bengal Muslims', which was cited by S. C. Mitra to Harry Graham Haig in a question time session of the Central Legislative Assembly.[10]
Pothan Joseph edited the paper in the 1940s.[11] Following the Lahore Resolution, he reoriented the The Star's editorial stance to favour a separate Muslim nation.[12]
In 1954, Julian Huxley debated the Soviet biologist Nuzdin, a supporter of the views of Trofim Lysenko, in Karachi. Star staff assisted Huxley in his preparations for the debate.[13]
Modern era
The Star was part of the Dawn Media Group,[14] published by Pakistan Herald Publications (Pvt.) Limited (PHPL).[15][1] It focused on controversial issues and gained a reputation for being outspoken and hard-hitting. The last editor of the paper was Kamal Majidulla.
The newspaper published a weekend arts supplement called Star Weekend, edited by Asif Noorani.
Imran Aslam, now President of Geo TV, edited The Star in the 1980s.[15]
Notes
- Profile of newspaper 'The Star' on mondotimes.com website Retrieved 29 March 2020
- DiCostanzo 2012, p. 231–232.
- Watson, Alfred H. (1948). "The Growth of the Press in English in India". Journal of the Royal Society of Arts. 96 (4760): 121–130 at 128–129. ISSN 0035-9114.
- See notes 10, 16, 32–34, and 105 to Chakrabarty, Bidyut (August 2008). "An Alternative to Partition: The United Bengal Scheme". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 26 (2): 193–212. doi:10.1080/085640032000089744. ISSN 0085-6401.
- Talha, Naureen (June 2014). "Indian Muslims in British India: Toward Economic Nationalism and Economic Independence (1943–1947)" (PDF).
- Acharya, Keya; Noronha, Frederick (20 January 2010). The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India. 106, note 11. ISBN 978-81-321-0496-4.
- Fazila-Yacoobali 2006, p. 196.
- Naqvi, S Ali Raza (1986). "Review pf Iqbāl Janah-I-Dīgar: A Collection of Iqbal's Letters to Allama Raghib Ahsan". Islamic Studies. 25 (1): 102–106 at 102. ISSN 0578-8072.
Besides his larger works: Jihad for Millathood, Kitab-i Mubeen and Light from the East, he also contributed more than two hundred articles on the political and religious problems of the Muslims of the sub-continent, most of which were published in the Star of India, Calcutta …
- Hayat, Syed Umar; Ullah, Altaf (2017). "Allamah Raghib Ahsan and Pakistan Movement: An Assessment" (PDF). South Asian Studies. 32 (1): 239–249.
- The Legislative Debates (Official Report). 6. New Delhi: Government of India Press. 1934. p. 919.
- Fazila-Yacoobali 2006, p. 195.
- DiCostanzo 2012, p. 232.
- Dronamraju, Krishna R.; Needham, Joseph (1 June 1993). If I Am To Be Remembered: Correspondence of Julian Huxley. Singapore: World Scientific. p. 109. ISBN 978-981-4505-19-2.
- The Europa World Year Book. 2. London: Taylor & Francis. 29 July 2004. p. 3285. ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8.
- "Imran Aslam". Pakistan Herald.
Sources
- DiCostanzo, Thierry (9 February 2012). "Use and Re-Use of 'Pakistan' in the Indian Muslim Press (1932–47)". In Hegewald, Julia A. B.; Mitra, Subrata K. (eds.). Re-Use: The Art and Politics of Integration and Anxiety. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India. ISBN 978-81-321-0981-5.
- Fazila-Yacoobali, Vazira (1999). "A rite of passage: The partition of history and the Dawn of Pakistan". Interventions. 1 (2): 183–200. doi:10.1080/13698019900510301. ISSN 1369-801X.