Khyber Mail (newspaper)

Khyber Mail was a daily newspaper published from Peshawar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The news service has been discontinued, and the company now provides print services.

This article is about the Newspaper. For the similarly named passenger train, see Khyber Mail (passenger train).

Sheikh Sanaullah was the founder editor of Khyber Mail, the first English newspaper of the then NWFP that he started from Peshawar in 1932. He was an eminent journalist who begin his career as a sub-editor in daily 'Muslim Outlook", Lahore. He worked as a special correspondent of several Indian and foreign newspapers. He was an experienced newsman was acknowledged far and wide when he successfully reported for the daily "Pioneer" Lucknow, the proceedings of the Court Martial of the Indian officers and jawans who had refused to fire on the unarmed people at the Qissa Khwani Bazar of Peshawar in 1930.

The newspaper survived till 1989, edited, published and managed by his sons Shiekh Zakaullah and Shiekh Saleemullah, mainly by the oldest, Shiekh Zakaullah, who himself was a distinguished journalist and a philanthropist. The news service died with the death of Shiekh Zakaullah.

Prominent among the editors of this unique news service were (now all deceased except Sabir Hussain) Shiekh Zakaullah, Qalandar Momand, Askar Ali Shah, Mr Mashwani, Ziauddin Ahmad and Sabir Hussain.

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