One of the oldest weekly newspaper in the Indian subcontinent published in the Urdu language, weekly Al-Badr was established during the life of the Promised Messiah (Peace be upon him) on 31st October 1902. Later the Promised Messiah (Peace be upon him) named it as “Al-Qādiān”. Whereas in April 1905 this newspaper was renamed as “Badr”.

Badr was successfully published until December 1913. Then after a long interval it was re-launched from Qādiān on 7th March 1952. Apart from Urdu, Badr is now published from India, in 7 Indian languages namely Hindi, Bangla, Odia, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada. The Promised Messiah (Peace be upon him) termed Al-Ḥakam and Badr as his two arms.

Hazrat Muhammad Afzal (ra) was its first editor and after his death, the role was given to Hazrat Mufti Muhammad Sadiq (ra).