English-Language Pakistani Newspaper Celebrates 70 Years With a Look Back at Print Ads

Everything from Sohrab bicycles to Zelin's Coffee

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A pitch in 1950 for Pakistan’s first airline, Orient Airways. The heralding, that same year, of the country’s inaugural five-star hotel, The Metropole, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring the wife of the Shah of Iran.

These are just a few of the pleasures of The Daily Times’ celebration of predecessor the Pakistan Times, which first published Aug. 15, 1947 and closed in 1996.

It’s quite something to behold a past era when announcements were made by print media rather than social media or TV.

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