The online/newspaper was started on 1 November 1988. The news paper is now led by Zahid Malik and his three sons and a daughter Faisal Zahid Malik, Gauhar Zahid Malik, Omar Zahid Malik and Sadia Zahid Malik. The head office is in the capital city Islamabad and it has 4 other offices in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, and Muzafarabad. Mr Abdus Sattar former Foreign Minister is the lead current affairs analyst of this newspaper. He focuses on international security.

The daily Pakistan Observer is one of the largest circulated English newspaper of Pakistan, being published simultaneously from Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta. The newspaper has a vast readership all over Pakistan especially in the four provincial capitals as well as the Northern areas.