First weekly newspaper from Kargil launched

Kargil, Jun 6 (UNI) Sada-e-Haq, the first weekly Urdu newspaper from Kargil, hit the stands here today.

The weekly is being published by the Imam Khomeini Memorial Trust, a religious organisation.

The newspaper was launched at a function here to mark the death anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic of Iran's founder who died in 1989.

The two-page weekly will carry news about politics, business and sports in Ladakh region, particularly of the border district of Kargil.

The weekly would be printed in this remote district itself.

Earlier, Kargil Number, a fortnightly from here, used to be printed in Srinagar.

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