
The News Minute | August 28, 2014 | 3.03 pm ISTAn 83-year-old man in Delhi, is one of the few who can remember the office in Delhi where one of Pakistan’s most widely read English newspapers, Dawn, was started. In a piece published by The Caravan magazine, Rohit Inani writes that Pakistan’s historical English daily Dawn was started in New Delhi. The office is today, house number 3576. He was shown the former office of the newspaper in Daryaganj, and very few, remember it. Yunus Jaffrey, is one of those few people, and he was a young boy when Dawn was started by Mohammed Ali Jinnah as a weekly on October 26, 1941. An edition of Dawn on August 14, 1949 (Image Courtesy: Native Pakistan.comThe article in The Caravan has a brief history of the newspaper’s first editor Pothan Joseph, and how even though Dawn had then supported the call for a separate Muslim state, there had been much debate among its staff.Jaffrey also recounts how people did not have any concrete idea of what Pakistan might look like. Read the full story at The Caravan magazine.On the 67th anniversary of its Independence, a publication owned by Dawn Media Group, Herald invited historians to write about what they thought was the most blatant lie taught about Pakistan's history in school text books. Read: What is the most blatant lie taught through Pakistan textbooks?