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The younger of Jang Group’s founder Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman’s two sons, he is generally known as MSR. He has expanded his father’s newspaper publishing business into a multi-billion-rupee media empire over the last four decades – becoming Pakistan’s biggest and the most powerful media tycoon in the process.
Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, who mostly lives in Dubai, is one of the pioneers of online news platforms in Pakistan. Daily Jang became the country’s first newspaperin 1996 to have its internet edition. Since then, this edition has transformed into a fully-fledged news website in Urdu language and has become one of the country’s most browsed online news sources. As of now, almost all news platform owned by Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and his family have their own websites, each with a sizeable audience.
He has shown the same pioneering spirit in television industry and has set up several television channels. These include Pakistan’s most watched Urdu language news channel, Geo News, and the country’s only youth-focused channel, Aag (which closed down after a couple of years of its 2002 launch because it could not earn its keep).
Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman’s first foray into the news industry, soon after he finished his studies back in the late 1970s, was to run an English language evening newspaper, Daily News. He turned it into Karachi’s largest circulating evening newspaper soon after taking over its management.

He has held key positions in All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS), a representative body of print media owners. He has also played a key role in the formation of Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) that represents businesses and individuals running televisions channels and radio stations in Pakistan.

Unlike his father who mostly stayed away from directly getting involved in politics, Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman has never hesitated from taking on political leaders, parties and even governments. In the late 1990s, he had a bruising clash with the then civilian government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif who imposed punishing restrictions on daily Jang and its affiliated publications for their critical coverage of his government. Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and Maleeha Lodhi, who at the time worked as the editor of The News International, and some other members of the Jang Group staff faced treason charges for publishing news and views that Sharif did not like.

Born in 1981, he is the eldest son of Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. He received a business degree from a college in the United States in 2000 and became the founding chief executive officer of Geo News at the very young age of 21.
In 2009, he returned to the United States and received a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2011, he received Robert F Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service for his contribution – and that of Geo News – in the media coverage of a 2007 movement by Pakistani lawyers for the restoration of senior judges sacked by then President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf.
Like his father, Mir Ibrahim Rahman has expanded his family business in new directions. He set up Geo Films that has produced such blockbuster feature films as Khuda Kay Liye (2007) and Bol (2011). The former was about the menace of religious extremism and terrorism plaguing Pakistan; the latter was about the rights of girls.
Mir Ibrahim Rahman is also as active in media’s trade bodies as his father has been. He serves as joint secretary of the executive committee of Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA), a non-government entity representing businesses and individuals which own television channels and radio stations.

A former chairman of Punjab Information Technology Boardand ex-advisor to the chief minister of Punjab, he became chief digital officer for both Jang Group and Geo Television Network in January 2019.
Born in 1979, he received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge at the age of 22. He then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he completed his post-doctorate degree and returned to Pakistan in 2005 to teach at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).
He quit teaching in 2013 and joined the provincial government of Punjab to work on the digitization of official records as well as the delivery mechanisms of various public services, including school education. He also worked as the founding vice-chancellor of Lahore-based Information Technology University from January 2013 to November 2018.

A 1990 graduate of Karachi University, he started his career as a reporter with English language daily The News International. Soon afterwards, he joined English language monthly Herald.
Azhar Abbas was among the first batch of Pakistani journalists who started working for a locally-based private television production house back in the late 1990s. This was when he, along with some other Karachi-based mediapersons, started Pakistan Business Update, a current affairs programme produced by a private company but aired on state-owned Pakistan Television. He also spent several years working as Pakistan correspondent for CNBC, an American business news channel.
When Geo News was being set up, Azhar Abbas joined its founding editorial team and soon rose through the ranks to become its managing director. In December 2006, he quit Geo News and joined Dawn News, an English language television channel owned by Dawn Media Group. He left Dawn News in 2009 and rejoined Geo Television Network. He quit it again in 2013 and joined Bol TV Network.
This network was a subsidiary of Axact, an informational technology company that was later alleged to be involved in money laundering and a fake degree scam. When these allegations led to the filing of cases against Axact management and the arrest of its top officials in 2015, Azhar Abbas left Bol TV Network and came back to Geo Television Network once again.

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