Ahmed won a New York Press Club[2] award in 2008 for Newsweek’s coverage of the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

The debut issue also featured an exclusive interview with Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan,[6] and also included an article on Pakistan by Ron Moreau, author of the October 2007 Newsweek cover story, "The Most Dangerous Nation in the World is not Iraq.

The magazine's advisory board comprises: Hameed Haroon, CEO of the Dawn Media Group; Qazi Shaukat Fareed, who has worked with the U.N. for over 20 years; Parvez Hassan, lawyer and environmentalist; Ayesha Jalal, professor of history at Tufts University; and David Walters, former governor of Oklahoma.

The Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and the Latin American editions, both in English, were produced in Pakistan and printed out of Germany and Brazil.

Newsweek Pakistan's cover story on the challenges facing the country's polio vaccination campaign[15] won a gold medal in 2013 at the United Nations Correspondents Association's Excellence in Journalism Awards.