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Daastan Publishers is a Pakistani self-publishing company, founded by Syed Ommer Amer in 2014.

History
In 2014, Syed Ommer Amer, a university student and writer, launched Daastan as Pakistan's first for-profit self-publishing company. He, along with his two friends, submitted a proposal for a self-publishing platform to the Plan9's 5th incubation cycle, which is Pakistan's largest technology incubator managed by the Government of Punjab, Pakistan. The proposal was chosen and funded.

Daastan also arranges story writing competitions and a podcast, Nishast, for new writers.

Projects
In January 2016, Daastan was branched into two projects; Qissa, a self-publishing wing for writers to self-publish themselves and freelance wing, a marketplace for Pakistani writers. The portal of Qissa has been modeled on Amazon's CreateSpace.