The finance section of the group’s English language daily The News International similarly carries a page full of stories taken from the British daily Financial Times. For years, it has distributed an Urdu-version of The Economist magazine’s yearly publication that carries forecasts and analyses about an upcoming year. It also pioneered the deployment of computers in newsrooms for composing, editing and laying out newspapers and magazines and it has been ahead of its competitors in collaborating with foreign media organizations as well. Its newspapers were the first in Pakistan to use colour printing on news pages. Though the group publishes Pakistan’s oldest - and also largest circulating - Urdu daily Jang that first came out as a weekly in 1939, it is also known for its pioneering and modernizing spirit. It is also one of the only three ‘legacy’ news organizations in Pakistan that predate the country’s creation in 1947. Though it branched out in some other fields – such as book publishing in the 1980s-90s and cable television network in the early 2000s, these initiatives have never become its main business. Jang Group is one of the few Pakistani media houses which have the collection, collation and dissemination of news as their core activity.
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