Daily Times

What Daily Times does

Daily Times is a Pakistan-based English-language online news platform, founded in 2002 and headquartered in Lahore. The platform publishes coverage across five core verticals — Pakistan (with sub-regional sections for Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh), World, Business, Sports, and Lifestyle — alongside editorial content, op-eds, commentary, perspectives, cartoons, letters to the editor, and topic-specific blogs. The stated mission framing ("Your right to know") positions the outlet as a general-interest English-language news source for Pakistani and South Asian audiences.

The product is delivered primarily through the dailytimes.com.pk website, supplemented by a digital e-paper product with city-specific editions for Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. Content is distributed globally through the website plus dedicated social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, with an on-site Google-powered search that surfaces an extensive indexed archive. The platform has no dedicated mobile app, no API, no SDK, and no disclosed integrations, indicating a relatively standard CMS-driven publishing stack.

Daily Times operates an advertising-supported business model: the privacy policy explicitly states the company "sells advertising space on the site" to keep content free of charge. The platform serves a horizontal general-news-reader segment, is privately held with 101-250 employees, has no disclosed subscription tiers or paywall, and has no publicly reported funding rounds, M&A activity, or partnerships, consistent with a bootstrapped or family-controlled media operation.

Name

Daily Times

Legal name

Daily Times

Website

https://dailytimes.com.pk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Daily Times is a Pakistan-based English-language online news platform, founded in 2002, covering politics, business, sports, and lifestyle. It serves general news readers in Pakistan through its website, three city e-papers, and social media, monetizing via advertising.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online News Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110), Newspaper Publishers (51311)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

National & General-Interest Newspapers (Print & Digital) (MPAJADAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Local & Regional Newspapers (Print & Digital) (MPAJADAB)

Keywords

• Online news publishing
• Digital newspaper
• E-paper editions
• Editorial content
• News media

Headquarters

HQ city

Lahore

HQ country

Pakistan

HQ region

Asia

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Advertising Revenue: Daily Times generates revenue by selling advertising space on the website to third parties. The privacy policy explicitly states 'To sell advertising space on the site. This helps us to keep the site free of charge.'

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Daily Times is an English-language online newspaper that publishes news, editorials, op-eds, commentary, blogs, cartoons, and lifestyle content covering Pakistan, World, Business, Sports, and Lifestyle topics. It distributes content free of charge to readers through its website and city-specific digital E-Paper editions for Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi.

Product overview

Daily Times operates as a single unified online news platform offering comprehensive coverage across multiple content verticals including Pakistan news, World news, Business, Sports, and Lifestyle. The publication also provides an E-Paper digital edition for readers in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. The core product is the website-based news service with regional sections covering Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh, complemented by the E-Paper digital newspaper product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Daily Times E-Paper: Digital e-paper editions available for Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi

Products and services

• Daily Times (Online Newspaper) Daily Times is Pakistan's leading English-language online newspaper providing the latest news, world affairs, business, sports, and lifestyle coverage, as well as editorial content across regional and international topics. The platform organizes coverage by Pakistani region (Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh) and by topic, and is offered free of charge to readers.
• Daily Times E-Paper Digital replica edition of the Daily Times newspaper available for online viewing, with city-specific editions for Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi, accessed through the e-paper section of the Daily Times website.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Pakistan Today: Pakistan Today is an English-language newspaper and digital news outlet covering national, business, and lifestyle news from Lahore. It competes head-to-head with Daily Times for the same English-reading audience and advertising budgets.
• The News International: The News International is a major Pakistani English-language daily and digital news platform published from Karachi and Lahore. It overlaps directly with Daily Times on national, world, and business news coverage and e-paper distribution.
• The Express Tribune: The Express Tribune is a Pakistani English-language daily newspaper and digital news site affiliated with the Lakson Group. It directly competes with Daily Times for English-speaking Pakistani readers, advertisers, and digital subscriptions.
• Dawn (Pakistan): Dawn is Pakistan's leading English-language daily newspaper and digital news site, headquartered in Karachi. It is the most direct peer to Daily Times, offering the same English-language national news, business, opinion, and e-paper products to Pakistani readers and the diaspora.
• Business Recorder: Business Recorder is Pakistan's oldest English-language business daily and operates a large digital news and data site. It overlaps with Daily Times' business and finance coverage and competes for English-language advertisers in Pakistan.
• The Nation (Pakistan): The Nation is a long-standing Pakistani English-language daily newspaper and digital news platform. It competes directly with Daily Times for English-speaking readers and national advertising dollars, particularly in Lahore and Islamabad.

Broad incumbents

• Samaa TV: Samaa TV is a leading Pakistani news broadcaster with a strong digital news platform. As a multi-platform incumbent it competes with Daily Times for national news audiences and digital advertising spend, though its primary medium is television.
• ARY News: ARY News is a major Pakistani news broadcaster with a sizeable digital news site. It operates more broadly across Urdu TV and digital and competes with Daily Times for advertising and audience share in Pakistan.
• Geo News: Geo News is Pakistan's largest news broadcaster with a major digital news site backed by the Jang Group. While primarily TV-led, it competes with Daily Times for the same national news, advertising budgets, and digital audience, making it a broad incumbent peer.
• Jang (newspaper group): Jang is Pakistan's largest Urdu-language daily and part of the Jang Group, which also owns Geo. It is a broad incumbent that competes with Daily Times for overall advertising share and reaches a much larger Urdu-reading audience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/dailytimespk
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UC7VBJBGfqHG6nEw4Wdc1icg
• Facebookfacebook.com/DailyTimes.Official
• Instagraminstagram.com/dailytimespak

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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