About Us

PakTribune is the first and the only dotcom in Pakistan for free, complete, and unbiased news – an online news service with a dedicated team of over 300 reporters, photographers, editors and IT managers. Powered by strong database architecture and equipped with state-of-the-art tools, PakTribune is a joint effort of Online International News Network, an independent Pakistan-based news-photo wire service, RMDG (Resource Monitoring and Development Group Pty Ltd.) and PakCyber, a leading IT, media and development consultancy firm.

ONLINE International News Network was launched in 1999 while RMDG and PakCyber were formed in 1997. Now they have joined hands for new perspective of journalism.

ONLINE is different from contemporary Pakistani news agencies for its independent coverage and free from government influence.

It is the first Pakistani news agency with service in English, Urdu and Arabic news and photo services. Currently it is giving services to over 150 dailies in Pakistan and overseas in English, Urdu and Arabic languages.

PakTribune has built-in interactive mechanism, making journalism a two-way communication and a valuable source for researchers, scholars, students and community activists.

With head office in Islamabad, PakTribune has bureaus in provincial capitals, besides major cities, including Muzaffarabad, Hyderabad, Multan, Sialkot and Faisalabad.

Committed to keep readers updated as the events unfold, within one month of its launch, PakTribune has been selected by one of the largest news resources – Google News Resource and moreover.com. Through news ticker services, PakTribune is providing news updates to scores of websites and news networks.

Why PakTribune?

We do not only believe in breaking the news, we believe in taking you along as the world changes minute by minute. We want to hear from you. Our interactive environment will keep us in touch on regular basis. Here are some of the easiest ways to remain in touch around the clock.

My PakTribune: It only requires a simple registration, giving you a 'user name' and 'password', and you are on the road to information that matters. 

News Alerts: Through this sub feature, members can subscribe keywords and get instant updates via email the moment the story is updated.

News Wire Service: Members get their hands on the latest news updated 24 hours as our reporters gather news around the globe.

Newsletters: Subscribe to our daily HTML and text based newsletters dispatched once in 24 hrs.

My Favourites: Bookmark news stories, pictorial, audio and video into properly managed folders. This feature eliminates the need to keep the news clippings.

Event Calendar: Post events, messages and announcements in public or private areas with or without your identity.

News Ticker: It enables you to generate a simple HTML code to display PakTribune news of your choice on your own website. This helps you to keep the latest PakTribune news on your websites without updating. As soon as PakTribune updates, all news tickers around the world will be updated automatically.

Speak Out: Don't suppress feelings on any issue under the sun. Use our special interactive feature and post comments on any topic.

PakTribune creates new topics with brief history about them. Our editorial teams select comments and display them in public section for readers. The best phrases out of these comments are selected and put in Quotation boxes highlighting the punch line of each comment.

Discussion Forums: Interact with host of people around the world to broaden your horizon. Our team creates general forums under which visitors start discussion topics relevant to the particular forum. Each topic is open to public. Visitors can also start their own opinion poll if approved by the moderator of that forum.

Search Engine: We have developed our own local search engine giving our visitors a choice to instantly fetch the news or information of their choice from our archives. Our archives have the database of stored news since year 2001. We are the first Pakistani website, which has developed Pakistan’s first Pictorial search engine.

Opinion Poll: Become part of the process to know you are in majority or minority.

PakTribune’s Audience and Traffic:

We are living in the Global village, thanks to Internet. Every service on the Internet has global coverage. However, every service should also have a target audience. PakTribune’s audience is Pakistanis, wherever they are in the world, international media activists and news networks and all those interested in Pakistan’s current affairs.

Launched for the first time to provide election coverage in October last year, PakTribune got knocked over by 1.1 million hits in three days! PakTribune’s http://elections.PakTribune.com was the only website providing election results through an automated database structure.

The unofficial results received through the network of our 600 reporters/correspondents all over Pakistan helped us announce results every five minutes. All announcements on our website are still available for customized search and report generation facility.

Ufone, Pakistan’s famous GSM provider chose us to stream the results on their network. Google News Resource and Moreover.com acknowledged PakTribune’s service. In addition, we are providing news feed to several corporate websites through our news ticker.

Still, we think we have a lot to achieve and miles to go before we become #1 news resource from Pakistan on the Internet.