About Pakistan Post

Pakistan Post

Pakistan Post is a weekly Urdu-language newspaper published in the Greater Toronto Area — the Mississauga-based weekly serving Canada's Pakistani diaspora with Urdu journalism covering Pakistani, South Asian, Canadian, and community news. Published from 1325 Eglinton Avenue East in Mississauga, Ontario, the paper produces a weekly print edition with a full digital e-paper archive — its e-paper reached issue number 1,703 in November 2025 — and an active news website at pakistanpostcanada.com. In 2010, the paper became a national press-freedom story when one of its journalists was assaulted in Mississauga for his critical reporting, an attack condemned by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression.

Overview

Pakistan Post is a weekly newspaper published in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan and the mother tongue of much of Canada's Pakistani diaspora. Based at 1325 Eglinton Avenue East, Unit 213, Mississauga, Ontario — in the heart of the GTA's South Asian commercial corridors — the paper serves the Urdu-speaking Pakistani community across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond. Its contact line is 905-279-5600, and its website is pakistanpostcanada.com, where it describes itself as a weekly Urdu newspaper of Canada.

The paper publishes a weekly print edition, each issue released simultaneously as a digital e-paper: the e-paper archive documents an unbroken weekly run, with issue number 1,703 dated November 20, 2025, preceded by issue 1,702 (November 13), 1,700 (October 30), and so on through the autumn — evidence of a paper publishing on schedule, week after week. The website carries continuously updated news alongside the e-paper, organized into sections for Pakistan, South Asia, world news, sports, community news, fashion, and video.

The paper's editor is Amir Arain, named in the 2010 press-freedom reporting as the newspaper's editor. The paper's founding date is not publicly confirmed in the sources consulted for this profile.

History

Pakistan Post was established to serve the Urdu-speaking Pakistani community of the Greater Toronto Area — one of Canada's largest and fastest-growing South Asian diaspora communities, concentrated in Mississauga, Brampton, and Toronto. The GTA's Pakistani community, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, sustains a Urdu-language media ecosystem of newspapers, radio, and television; Pakistan Post is among its print flagships, a weekly that connects the diaspora to news from Pakistan while covering the community's Canadian life.

The paper's defining public moment came in April 2010, when it became the centre of a national press-freedom story. On the evening of April 17, 2010, Pakistan Post journalist Jawaad Faizi was sitting in his car outside the home of the newspaper's editor, Amir Arain, in Mississauga, when he was attacked by two men, one armed with a cricket bat. The men smashed the car's windows and repeatedly struck Faizi, warning him to stop "writing against Islam" and against a Pakistan-based religious organization, Idara Minhaj-ul-Quran, and its leader. The attack followed telephoned threats to Faizi and Arain — the night before the assault, the two had filed a complaint with police, also reporting threats received in January.

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) took up the case, reporting the assault and calling on police to treat it with the utmost seriousness and ensure a full investigation. Editor & Publisher covered the story for the industry. Faizi was treated in hospital for injuries to his left arm and lost two days of work; the vice-principal of the school his three children attended asked him to keep them home, saying they might be a security risk. "I had so many problems back home [in Lahore, Pakistan] as a journalist, but I'm shocked that this is happening here," Faizi told CJFE — a statement that captured the particular dismay of a journalist who had left Pakistan's dangers only to be attacked for his reporting in Canada.

The incident placed Pakistan Post within the broader story of press freedom in diaspora media: journalists covering the politics and religious controversies of their countries of origin can face pressures and threats that follow them across borders, and the community-language press — often operating with small staffs and limited security — bears those risks directly.

Content and Coverage

Pakistan Post covers the news its Urdu-speaking readers need in the language they read most comfortably. Its Pakistan coverage follows the country's politics, government, and public affairs — the comings and goings of prime ministers and cabinets, the civil-military dynamic, the courts, and the economy. Its South Asia coverage extends to India-Pakistan relations, regional diplomacy, and the subcontinent's politics. Its Canadian coverage includes federal and provincial politics — the paper covered the 2025 federal election, in which Mark Carney's Liberals retained power — as well as the community news of the GTA's Pakistani diaspora: religious and cultural events, community organizations, business, and the achievements and concerns of Pakistani Canadians.

The paper's sports coverage follows cricket — the diaspora's passion — alongside international sports, and its fashion and entertainment pages cover the Pakistani and Bollywood celebrity worlds that dominate South Asian popular culture. The e-paper reproduces the full print edition digitally, page for page, for readers who prefer the newspaper format online.

The paper's video section extends its journalism into multimedia, and its community-news pages carry the announcements, events, and organizational news of the GTA's Pakistani community — the mosques, associations, businesses, and cultural groups that constitute diaspora public life.

Coverage and Audience

Pakistan Post serves the Urdu-speaking Pakistani diaspora of the Greater Toronto Area — the hundreds of thousands of Pakistani Canadians concentrated in Mississauga, Brampton, Toronto, and the surrounding suburbs — and, through its website and e-paper, Urdu readers across Canada and beyond. Its audience includes first-generation immigrants who follow Pakistani politics closely, community elders for whom Urdu print remains the primary news medium, and the religious and community organizations that anchor diaspora life.

The paper's readers are a community that lives between two news environments: the Canadian media landscape, which covers Pakistan sporadically, and the Pakistani media landscape, which they follow in Urdu. Pakistan Post bridges the two — Canadian news in Urdu, Pakistani news with a diaspora perspective, and community news that neither country's mainstream press covers.

The weekly print edition serves readers who value the newspaper as a physical object — picked up at South Asian grocery stores, restaurants, mosques, and community centres across the GTA — while the e-paper and website serve the younger, digital-first readers and the diaspora beyond the Toronto area.

Ownership

Pakistan Post is published from its Mississauga offices under editor Amir Arain. Detailed public information about the paper's corporate ownership is not confirmed in the sources consulted for this profile. The paper operates as an independent community-language weekly, sustained by its readership and by advertising from the South Asian businesses of the GTA.

Digital Presence

Pakistan Post publishes online at pakistanpostcanada.com, a continuously updated Urdu news website organized into sections for Pakistan, South Asia, world news, sports, community news, fashion, and video. The site's e-paper archive — numbering past issue 1,700 in the autumn of 2025 — offers the complete weekly print edition in digital form, free to read.

The digital operation extends the paper's reach far beyond the GTA's newsstands: Urdu readers across Canada, in Pakistan, and in the global Pakistani diaspora can follow the paper online. For a community-language weekly, the website is both a news service and an archive — the record of the paper's journalism and of the community it serves, available wherever Urdu is read.

For Canada's Pakistani diaspora, Pakistan Post remains the weekly in Urdu: the paper that covers the old country's politics and the new country's elections, the community's celebrations and its controversies — including, when necessary, the price its own journalists have paid for reporting them.