AJL to start Urdu daily 'Qaumi Awaz'

The Associated Journals today announced its plan to resume publication of its Urdu newspaper 'Qaumi Awaz' along with its digital version and appointed veteran journalist Zafar Agha as its Editor-in-Chief.
AJL is a company founded in 1937 by Jawaharlal Nehru and its Urdu newspaper 'Qaumi Awaz' is one of the pioneers of post-Independence journalism. It had temporarily suspended its publication in 2008.
The Associated Journals launched the beta version of its English website www.Nationalheraldindia.Com in 2016, spearheaded by Neelabh Mishra as Editor-in-Chief for its Hindi and English newspapers as well as digital properties, a statement said.
Zafar Agha, who started his career in 1980, has nearly three decades of print and electronic experience.

"The publication and digital website shall follow the same editorial vision and principles as that of our founder, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
"It shall seek to give voice to the vision of Pandit Nehru and continue to occupy a liberal, progressive, secular space, furthering the best values of the freedom movement - that of building a modern, democratic, just, equitable, liberal and socially harmonious nation, free of sectarian strife," a statement from AJL said.
Launched in 1938 as a daily newspaper in English, the National Herald was in the vanguard of the Indian freedom movement and during its halcyon days its newspapers lent their influential voice to the efforts of building a peaceful, liberal and democratic nation imbued with rationality and scientific temper that their founder had inculcated, it said.