Razia Bhatti (Urdu: رضیہ بھٹی) (born 1944 – died 12 March 1996) was a Pakistani journalist who served as editor of the Herald and Newsline magazines.
In 1967, she joined the Pakistani magazine The Illustrated Weekly of Pakistan, later renamed as The Herald and turned it into a monthly publication with focus on current and political issues.
[2][3] After receiving pressure to curb her writing, most of her team of journalists resigned from The Herald along with her and together they established a new staff-owned current affairs monthly magazine called Newsline.
It has been silent when it should have spoken, dishonest when it should have been forthright, succumbed when it should have stood fast.The Newsline magazine under Razia Bhatti's editorship covered a number of issues including drug cartels, ethnic and fascist political parties, militant Islamic groups, a president's son-in-law, a prime minister's spouse and successive governments during her career.
[2][1] In December 1994, Newsline magazine published an article criticizing then Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto for her inaction in the face of random killings, looting and high crime rate in the largest city of Pakistan, Karachi.
[1] After her death, a noted Pakistani scholar and journalist Eqbal Ahmad wrote in his tribute to Razia Bhatti,"She will crash, I had thought then, or else she will help transform journalism in Pakistan.