Dawn is the largest and oldest English-language newspaper in Pakistan and the country's newspaper of record. Dawn is the flagship publication of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, which also owns the information technology magazine Spider and the advertising marketing and media magazine Aurora.

Dawn was founded by Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi, India, on 26 October 1941, as a mouthpiece for the Muslim League. The first issue was printed at Latifi Press on 12 October 1942. The newspaper has offices in Karachi (Sindh), Lahore (Punjab), and the federal capital Islamabad, and correspondents abroad. As of 2010, it has a weekday circulation of over 109,000. The CEO of Dawn group is Hameed Haroon, and the current editor is Zaffar Abbas. On 24 March 2016, it became the first newspaper to oppose the resumption of the death penalty in Pakistan