Pakistani pay TV operator ARY Digital plans to launch an English language weekly newspaper for Muslim readers in Britain, Europe and Pakistan.
The unnamed newspaper will be edited by Burhan Wazir, a former deputy feature editor Times who received the title “Young Journalist of the Year” in 1999.
As reported on the site Arabian Business (12/10), the target audience for this newspaper is the beginners aged between 20 and 45 years. "The print and digital editions will try to bridge the general issues of the West and the Muslim world," Wazir said in an emailed statement.
Wazir is a former executive at National in Abu Dhabi launched by a former editor Telegraph, Martin Newland.
“From London to Washington, through the Gulf and South Asia, there is a need for quality products aimed at an increasingly sophisticated and metropolitan Muslim community. Our journalists and writers will help shape this debate. Finding similarities between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, ”said Wazir. (Mel / ddhongkong.org). *
