Qaumi Awaz

Qaumi Awaz (transl.voice of the nation) is an Urdu language newspaper published in India[1] by Associated Journals Limited, which was started by Jawaharlal Nehru in November 1937. It was shut in 2008 company was incurring losses. Its sister publications are the National Herald newspaper in English and Navjivan in Hindi. On 21 January 2016 the AJL in its meeting in Lucknow decided to relaunch the three dailies.[2] In August Qaumi Awaz Digital Edition was launched.

Qaumi Awaz
Founder(s)Jawaharlal Nehru
PublisherThe Associated Journals Limited
Editor-in-chiefZafar Agha
FoundedNovember 1937
LanguageUrdu
Ceased publication2008
Sister newspapersThe National Herald, Navjivan
Websitehttp://www.qaumiawaz.com/

Zafar Agha is the chief editor of Qaumi Awaz.[3][4]

Lawsuits

In 2021, many journalists and politicians who reported about the death of Navreet Singh during the 2021 Farmers' Republic Day parade were charged with sedition by the Delhi police and 3 state police. The police cases were filed across three BJP-ruled states against journalists including Qaumi Awaz editor Zafar Agha.[3] Varadarajan has called the police FIR "malicious prosecution".[5][6] Press Club of India (PCI), the Editors’ Guild of India, the Press Association, the Indian Women’s Press Corps (IWPC), the Delhi Union of Journalists and the Indian Journalists Union in a joint press conference asked the sedition law to be scrapped.[3][7] Editors Guild of India spoke against invoking of the sedition charge on journalists. The guild termed the FIRs as an "attempt to intimidate, harass, browbeat and stifle the media".[8]

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