The Frontier Post Explained

Frontier Post
Type:	Daily Newspaper and Magazine
Format:	Broadsheet
Owner:	Frontier Publications Pvt Ltd
Founder:	Rehmat Shah Afridi
Chiefeditor:	Bilal Afridi
Editor:	Jalil Afridi
Foundation:	1998
Language:	English
Headquarters:	Peshawar, Pakistan

The Frontier Post is an independent English language daily newspaper founded in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1985. It publishes from Peshawar, Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, and Quetta.

History

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 ethnic Pukhtoon (the dominant population of Peshawar) nor from a Pukhtoon area.^[1] Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor Fazle 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" by Amnesty 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.

Notes and References

1. Book: Zubeda Jalalzai. David Jefferess. Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building. 6 June 2011. Duke University Press. 0-8223-5014-9. 86–.
2. Book: Shahid Javed Burki. Historical Dictionary of Pakistan. 19 March 2015. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 978-1-4422-4148-0. 200–.
3. Web site: 2023-12-10 . Founder of “The Frontier Post” Rehmat Shah Afridi passes away . 2023-12-11 . Dunya News . en.
4. Web site: Desk . NNPS . 2023-12-10 . Minister condoles demise of Rehmat Shah Afridi . 2023-12-11 . en-US.
5. Web site: Shah . Waseem Ahmad . 2023-12-11 . Frontier Post founder Rehmat Shah Afridi laid to rest . 2023-12-11 . DAWN.COM . en.
6. Book: Alain Labrousse. Laurent Laniel. The World Geopolitics of Drugs, 1998/1999. 29 June 2013. Springer Science & Business Media. 978-94-017-3505-6. 69–.