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Jang Media Group
Pakistani newspaper publishing company
Jang Media Group (Urdu: جنگ میڈیا گروپ), also known as Geo Group, is a Pakistani media conglomerate and a subsidiary of Dubai-based company Independent Media Corporation. It is headquarters in Printing House, Karachi. It is the publisher of the Urdu language newspaper the Daily Jang, The News International, Mag Weekly, and operates Geo News and Geo TV.
Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is the current Editor-in-Chief.
History
Mir Khalil ur Rehman, a businessman of Kashmiri descent, founded the Jang Group at the end of World War II. As of 2011, his eldest son, Mir Javed ur Rehman, is the group chairman and the executive director. Javed's younger brother Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman is group chief executive and editor in chief. Independent Media Corporation is a multi-media corporation and owns the Jang Group of Newspapers and the Geo Television Network based in Karachi, Pakistan. Mir Ibrahim Rahman is the chief executive of Geo Television Network and the President was Imran Aslam.
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It also runs many TV channels as part of the Geo Television Network starting with its flagship channel Geo TV in 2002. It has since launched several other channels in which the news, music and sports sectors are targeted. Their broadcast channel services are provided to the viewers in the UK, the US, Canada, and the Middle East as well as in Pakistan.
- Geo News – a Pakistan-based Urdu news channel
- GEO Super – (sports channel), launched by Geo Network in September 2006. Programming content includes a variety of sports from around the world, focusing mainly on cricket and field hockey with a secondary focus on boxing, football (soccer), and tennis.
- Geo Entertainment – a Pakistan based entertainment channel showing drama serials, musical prog
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Daily Jang was first published during World War II – hence its name which means ‘war’ in Urdu. It was originally published as a weekly, mainly to raise political awareness among Muslims living in British India.
After Pakistan’s creation in 1947, a young Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman became one of the pioneers of newspaper publishing in the new country’s initial capital city, Karachi.
Since the start of its publication in Pakistan, daily Jang has been a conservative, middle of the road, market-minded newspaper. Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman shunned colour printing, flashy layouts and new technologies as much as he would stayaway from being directly involved in political controversies.
His son, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, has been the real force for changein Pakistani news industry since the 1980s. He not just started multiple editions of daily Jang from cities outside its headquarters in Karachi, including one from London, he also launched many other news platforms. Along the way, he also got entangled in various political conflicts.
In the late 1990s, he had a bruising clash with the then civilian government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif who imposed punishing restrictions on daily Jang and its affiliated publications for their critical coverage of his government. Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and Maleeha Lodhi, who at the time worked as the editor of The News International, and some other members of the Jang Group staff faced treason charges for publishing news and views that Nawaz Sharif did not like.
In 2007, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman had another run-in with the government, this time for opposing the military-led administration of President General Pervez Musharraf. Consequently, Geo News, the news channel owned by Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and his family, was briefly taken off air and one of its senior talk show hosts, Hamid Mir, was banned from appearing on television.
Since Pervez Musharraf’s ouster from power in 2008, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and his media gro Pakistani media proprietor Mir Ibrahim Rahman (born 11 March 1977) is a Pakistani media proprietor who is the chief executive officer of the Geo Television Network. Mir Ibrahim Rahman was born on 11 March 1977 in Karachi, to media mogul father Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and mother Shahina Shakil, the eldest of nine children. He is of Kashmiri descent, as his paternal great-grandparents were from Kashmir Valley. Rahman studied at the Karachi American School and, after graduating, moved to the United States, where he received a BBA degree from Babson College in 2000. In the US, he started his career as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs. Two years later in 2002, he returned to Pakistan and joined his family media business, subsequently launching Pakistan's first private news channel and network, Geo TV, in the fall of that year along with his father. In 2009, he went back to the US and received his Master of Public Administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School the following year. Rahman is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service for his contribution towards the Lawyers' Movement, and was listed among the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders in 2011. In 2000, Rahman graduated summa cum laude from Babson College with honours in economics, finance and entrepreneurship. After his graduation, he worked as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs specialising in media and telecom. After a brief stint with the investment banking and securities firm, he returned to Pakistan in 2002. Until 2002, the electronic media in Pakistan was largely dominated by state-owned institutions like Pakistan Television Corporation and the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation. This monopoly was thwarted when the Musharraf regime regulated electronic media allowing for private television c A Tribute to Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman: By Qutubuddin Aziz My fat Mir Ibrahim Rahman
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Pioneer of journalism in Pakistan His life-long passion for factual news reportingIn 1729, when a pioneer of American journalism, Benjamin Franklin, who in later years won fame as an outstanding politician, diplomat and statesman, took over the management of one of the early newspapers of the American colonial period, the Pennsylvania Gazette, his main objectives were to build it into a crusading publication for defending people's rights, blunting the arrogance of harsh administrators and tapping profitable advertising for its financial stability. Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman, one of the leading pioneers of Pakistani journalism, had almost similar objectives when he transplanted his young newspaper creation, the Daily Jang, from New Delhi in India to Karachi in Pakistan to greet the new Muslim State on its birth on August 14, 1947. Like Ben Franklin who succeeded in making his newspaper possibly the best in the British-ruled colonies in the New World of that vintage, Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman enjoyed, within a few years, extraordinary success in making his Jang the largest-circulating Urdu daily in West Pakistan and it later on burgeoned into Pakistan's biggest newspapers empire. When he died after a short illness in a London Hospital in January 1992, Mir Sahib was counted amongst the most successful newspaper tycoons in Asia. The base he built up for his newspapers -- the Urdu Daily Jang in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Rawalpindi, the English Daily The News in Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, the eveninger Daily News in Karachi, the Urdu weekly Akhbar-e-Jahan and English weekly Mag in Karachi -- was so sound that they command good circulations and yield high profits. After his death, the credit for this continuing success goes to his two sons, Mir Javed Rahman and Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, whom he personally trained during his lifetime to inherit and manage his newspapers.