Diwan Buta Singh

[1][2][3] He served as Maharani Jind Kaur's household minister (diwan) and was the vice-president of the Lahore Singh Sabha.

[3] By the 1860s, journalism was a budding industry in Lahore, with the amount of local editors, journalists, calligraphists, printers, compositors, and binders increasing.

[4] Throughout its history, the Aftab-i-Punjab newspaper had employed editors (including staff leaders) of many religious backgrounds, from Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims.

[note 2][3][4] The newspaper promoted cow protection, gently criticized British administration of the region, promoted Sikhs being loyal to the government, and believed that Sikhism was a separate religion from Hinduism (the newspaper advocated for the removal of Hindu beliefs and practices that they believed had crept into Sikhism).

[4] The Aftab-i-Punjab was overall critical of the British government's policies and actions against Duleep Singh, the deposed Sikh monarch.

[1] The Aftab-i-Punjab sourced its content from cuttings of English-language and local Indian languages' periodicals or through its correspondants stationed at various districts.

[1] Buta Singh also founded a Punjabi weekly newspaper titled Khalsa Prakash in 1891, with it being published by the Aftab-i-Punjab Press.