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| Type | Daily Newspaper and Magazine |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Frontier Publications Pvt Ltd |
| Founder(s) | Rehmat Shah Afridi |
| Editor-in-chief | Bilal Afridi |
| Editor | Jalil Afridi |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Peshawar, Pakistan |
| Website | thefrontierpost |
The Frontier Post is an independentEnglish language daily newspaper founded inPeshawar, Pakistan, in 1985. It publishes fromPeshawar,Lahore,Islamabad,Karachi, andQuetta.
When the paper was founded in 1985, there were no prominent journalists based in the area, and its original editor Aziz Siddiqi was neither an ethnicPukhtoon (the dominant population of Peshawar) nor from a Pukhtoon area.[1] FormerKhyber Pakhtunkhwa governorFazle Haq along with several entrepreneurs were engaged in founding the paper.[2][3][4]
The founder, chief editor and publisher,Rehmat Shah Afridi, has been termed a "prisoner of conscience" byAmnesty International due to his longstanding struggle for democracy and media freedom in Pakistan;[5] Afridi was arrested in 1999.[6] Jalil Afridi had been running The Frontier Post as its Managing Editor since 1999.[citation needed]
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