The Civil and Military Gazette began publishing in Karachi a week before its branch in Simla closed.
"[3] Kipling was assistant editor of the CMG, a job procured for him by his father, who was curator of the Lahore Museum,[4] when it was decided that he lacked the academic ability to get into Oxford University on a scholarship.
Kay Robinson, the new editor, allowed more creative freedom, and Kipling was asked to contribute short stories to the newspaper.
[7] Rudyard Kipling eventually left the Civil and Military Gazette in 1887, to move to its sister-newspaper in Allahabad, The Pioneer.
Mahbub Jamal Zahedi joined the Civil and Military Gazette in 1963, at a time when its last branch, situated in Lahore, was about to cease publication.