October 23, 2020
Is Taseer Family considering selling Media Times Ltd?
Media Times was founded in 2001 by former Governor Punjab Salman Taseer, who had become very wealthy from his accounting firm Taseer Hadi, and his real estate business Pace Corporation. The core businesses were print and electronic. Print media included Daily Times, a nationwide English daily newspaper printed from Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad; Sunday Times, a weekly fashion magazine; and Aajkal an Urdu daily newspaper. Electronic media included the aforementioned Business Plus, the first business channel in Pakistan; and Zaiqa, a food channel which targeted middle class women. Both were acquired in 2008, and the licenses are currently Rs2 million each. Initially, Media Times
