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Daily Qaumi Bandhan (Bengali: দৈনিক কওমি বন্ধন; lit. "national unity" [22]) was a Bengali language newspaper published in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It has the reputation of being the only main Bengali newspaper in the country that catered specifically to the large Bengali community in Pakistan.
The paper was pro-democracy and supported various autonomy movements in East Pakistan. It was blacklisted by the Pakistani Government for a year and banned from receiving government advertisement. It stopped publishing for three months during the Bangladesh Liberation War. [2] [3] Abdul Khaleq was the founding editor and publisher of Azadi.
After independence, the newspaper published reports on Bengali collaborators of the Pakistan Army and war crimes. [4] The reports were used as evidence in the Bangladesh war crimes tribunal. [5] In 1972, Hasan Hafizur Rahman was elected president of the editorial board of the Dainik Bangla. [6]
The Sangbad was founded in 1951 and published from Dhaka, Bangladesh.Its first owner was Nasiruddin Ahmad and its first editor was Khairul Kabir. [2] During the 1950s and 1960s, the newspaper expressed strong views opposed to the Ayub Khan government of Pakistan, and was accordingly repressed.
The Daily Prothom Alo (Bengali: প্রথম আলো) is a Bengali-language daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka. It is one of the largest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh. [2] According to the National Media Survey of 2018, conducted by Kantar MRB Bangladesh, Prothom Alo has a
The Azad (Bengali: আজাদ) was a Bengali-language daily newspaper published from 1936 to 1990s. The Azad became Dhaka's first daily newspaper. The newspaper while based in Dhaka played an important role during the Bengali Language Movement for its advocacy of Bengali.
The editor of the newspaper was Badruddin. [3] In 1960's, The National Press Trust, which was a government-owned organization, took over and operated directly a number of the more prominent newspapers. Among these were two of the three principal English-language newspapers, the Pakistan Times, which has the largest circulation, and the Morning ...
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the official government-owned news agency of Bangladesh, was created on 1 January 1972 from the Dhaka bureau of the state-owned. Abul Kalam Azad , who was formerly Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina 's press secretary, became its chief editor in 2014. [ 32 ]