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The Frontier Post Newspaper Information

The only English-language newspaper distributed through Pakistan and Afghanistan collectively, The Frontier Post is based in Peshawar, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, previously known as the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Launched in February 1984 by Rahmat Shah Afridi, it is published in Peshawar, Lahore and Quetta.

The paper originated in Peshawar, but in 1990 they opened a branch in Lahore where Khaled Ahmed served as its resident editor and Samina Zubair as Senior Sub Editor. In 2005, reporter Amir Nawab travelled to Sararogha to cover the ceasefire proposed by Baitullah Mehsud, but was killed by a local militant group dubbing itself Sipah-e-Islam who stated that they believed journalists were "being used as tools in negative propagand...against the Muslim mujahideen".