Pakistan Studies MCQ #36681

An institution-matching item lists Dawn. Which application ties the newspaper to Jinnah?

Pakistan Studies MCQ #36681

  1. Question 1

    Q1. An institution-matching item lists Dawn. Which application ties the newspaper to Jinnah?

    • A) He was closely linked to founding and guiding Dawn as a major Muslim League mouthpiece
    • B) Dawn was launched in Dhaka in 1972 as a Bengali weekly unrelated to him
    • C) Dawn was a Congress paper edited by Gandhi alone
    • D) Dawn began as a British Reuters unit with no South Asian editors

    Answer: He was closely linked to founding and guiding Dawn as a major Muslim League mouthpiece

    Explanation: Jinnah founded the Dawn newspaper in Delhi in 1941 as the primary English-language mouthpiece of the All India Muslim League; it later shifted to Karachi and remains one of Pakistan's leading newspapers.