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Hameed Haroon

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Hameed Haroon (October 27, 1952– ) is a Pakistani businessman and owner of the Dawn Group of newspapers. He was born in Karachi to a politically influential and financially strong Sindhi family. After his primary education there he moved to London, UK, and did his BSc (Hons) in economics from the London School of Economics. He did his MA in regional studies (East Asia) from the Harvard University, US; an MA in political economy and another MA in economics from Boston University, US.

Mr Haroon is owner of the daily [http:// dawn.com Dawn], the daily Star, monthly Herald, monthly Spider. He is accused of being the representative of the English speaking elite class in Pakistan.