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When the Britishers occupied a vast area of the Indo-Pak subcontinent after the battle of Plassey in 1757, there was no newspaper that provide the new rulers the day to day information. They felt the need and to fulfill this need, James Augustus Hickey published the first newspaper in 1780. It was purely a rulers newspaper. Afterwards, newspapers in local languages appeared. The Bengal Gazzette was the first Indian owned newspaper, appeared in 1816. In 1822, the first Urdu newspaper, Jam -e-Jahan Numa was published.
the Muslims and the Hindus. The conditions became worsened day by day. The Muslim Journalists Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, Muhammad Ali Joahr, Abul Kalam A zad and Hasrat Mohani adopted the militants policy against the rulers and the Hindus. The Muslim Journalists performed two main functions: 1) It stirred up the Muslims politically. 2) It forced the rulers to accept the rights of muslims. After the formation of the All India Muslim League (1906), the Muslim Press became the stalwart of the League. The pro-Muslim League journalists wrote the articles to favour the policies of the League. The combined struggle of the Muslim journalits-cum-politicians made the Muslims of the subcontinent capable to obtain their goal. It was, no doubt, the muslim press which favoured the muslim politicians and they could succeed in their mission. The role of Manshoor, Zamindar, Ehsan, Inqalab, Nawa-I-Waqt, Dawn, Pakistan Times in the struggle of Pakistan is very important which is unforgettable.
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