Friday, April 24, 2009

Brief History of Sindhi Press

The first Sindhi only newspaper was called ‘Moin-ul-Islam’ and it started its circulation in 1880. This was followed by various other papers such as Sind Sudhar, Muawan Majma, Saraswati, Aftab Sind, Kher Khoah, Musafir and Al Haq
The pioneers of journalism in Sindh were the Persian language newspapers. First Persian language newspaper started in Sindh in 1855. Its owner was Mirza Mukhlis Ali. In 1860, Mirza Mukhlis started a bilingual newspaper from Sukkur which printed one column in Persian and the other column contained its Sindhi translation.
This newspaper was called ‘Matla Khursheed’ and is considered as the first Sindhi newspaper of the subcontinent. Matla Khursheed continued to publish until 1910.
The second period of Sindhi Journalism began with the publication of Al Hilal in 1901. The first Sindhi daily called Sind Wasi came out in 1908 and the second Hind Wasi in 1917. During this period a number of important papers were brought out which included Al Kashif, Al Ameen, Tauheed, Sitara-e-Sind and Subah Sind.
This period culminated with publication of Al Waheed, the greatest Sindhi newspaper to date which was not only a newspaper but a movement and played a leading role in the establishment of Pakistan.
Sheikh Abdul Majid Sindhi, Maulana Din Mohammad Wafai, Prof. Din Mohammad Alig, Pir Ali Mohammad Rashidi and Kazi Abdur Rehman were some of the stalwarts of journalism at the time who with their pens raised the consciousness of the people and made them aware of their rights.
Hilal-e-Pakistan began publication in 1946 at Hyderabad. It also mobilized people in favor of Pakistan. Hilal-e-Pakistan is probably the only Sindhi newspaper which has offices in Islamabad and Lahore also.
After independence of Pakistan several new papers came into existence, including Naeen Sindh, Mehran, Azad, Nawai Sindh.
List of current Sindhi Newspapers
1. Kawish, Hyderabad, 2) Ibrat, Hyderabad 3) Hilal-e-Pakistan, Karachi 4. Khadim-e-Watan 5) Mehran, Hyderabad 6) Awami Awaz, Karachi, 7) Sham Hyd 8) Koshish 9) Tameer-e-Sindh 10) Halchal 11) The Daily Nijat, Sukkur, Karachi 12) Faislo 13) Koshish 14) Sindh Sukar
Kawish group is the biggest media group of Sindhi as it owns Kawish, Khadim-e-Watan, Koshish, Sham, and two TV channels.
Kawish, Ibrat, Hilal-e-Pakistan, Awami Awaz, Sham and Koshish are major newspapers.
Magazines
1) Aarsee 2) Affairs 3) Parish 4) Udhar 5) Gulphul 6) Halar 7) Nai Zindagi 8) Sartyoon

Sartyoon for women and Gulphul was children are published by Sindhi Adabi Board a semi govt organization.

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