Mumtaz Hamid Rao
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Mumtaz Hamid Rao (Urdu: مُمتاز حمِید راؤ) (16 June 1941 in Sialkot, Pakistan – 8 November 2011 in Rawalpindi) was a senior Pakistani electronic media journalist and analyst.[1]
Mumtaz Hamid Rao was picked in 1965 as the first news editor and reporter after PTV began transmission on 26 November 1964 and retired as its director of news.[1]
In 2001, Rao launched Pakistan's first daily online newspaper, Pakistan Times, of which he remained as editor-in-chief. Before that, he worked as a TV journalist and a former director of news at Pakistan Television Corporation.[1]
He joined Pakistan Television (PTV) in 1965 from the Pakistan Press Association, where he was chief reporter in Lahore and retired as the director of news and current affairs of PTV.[1][2]
Educated at Murray College in Sialkot and later at the University of Punjab, where he graduated in law, he has been responsible for conducting a number of journalistic courses in PTV. He headed the News and Current Affairs department in Lahore in 1972. In 1979, he made a tour of Europe to study different European network systems and completed a four-month attachment with BBC.[citation needed]