Mazhar Ali Khan (journalist)

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Mazhar Ali Khan (1917 – 1993) was a Pakistani

Pakistan Times in the 1950s, when it was considered a 'progressive' newspaper.[1][2]

Early life

According to Dawn newspaper, "Mazhar Ali Khan (1917-1993) was well known in his college days as a star debater, a lover of sports (tennis and swimming) and as a leader of a nationalist-minded and non-communal students' union."

British India, had made that a condition for Mazhar Ali Khan before he could marry his beautiful daughter, Tahira. So he fulfilled that condition to be able to marry Tahira. Despite his feudal background, young Mazhar Ali Khan started mobilizing peasants that were working on his extended family's lands due to the prevailing influence and trend towards socialist thinking in the late 1940s.[1]

Career

He was first asked to join the editorial team of the Pakistan Times in

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was arrested due to his suspected involvement in the Rawalpindi conspiracy case, Mazhar Ali Khan replaced him.[1][3][4]

Mian Iftikharuddin had earlier launched The

Ayub Khan's military regime seized the newspaper and its sister publications, the Urdu-language newspaper Daily Imroze and the magazine Lail-o-Nahar. Iftikharuddin, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and later Mazhar Ali Khan developed the 'progressive' editorial viewpoint of their publications from 1947 to 1959. Neither Faiz nor Mazhar joined a major political party in Pakistan so as not to compromise their editorial independence. They both tried to give special emphasis to the rights of peasants and workers.[1]

Mazhar Ali Khan's professional career may be divided into three parts – for the first 12 years, he wrote for The Pakistan Times which flourished under his editorial control and won the respect of the people. Mazhar Ali Khan never joined a political party to be able to preserve his editorial independence. The owner of the newspaper, Mian Iftikharuddin, also deserves some credit here because he chose not to interfere in the editor's domain. Mazhar Ali Khan's emphasis was on truthfulness and objectivity[1] Then he had a relatively inactive period of 16 years, where he wrote an occasional column for different publications in Pakistan. In the final period of his life, he brought out and wrote for his weekly magazine Viewpoint from 1975 to 1993, the year of his death. In 1981, while he was jailed at Kot Lakhpat Jail, he continued writing his editorial for Viewpoint.[1]

Personal life

Mazhar Ali Khan married his cousin Tahira. According to

British-Pakistani writer and a political activist with a socialist and communist viewpoint.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h I.A. Rehman (15 June 2017). "An outstanding journalist (Mazhar Ali Khan) - in-depth Profile". Dawn newspaper. Archived from the original on 14 February 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
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  3. ^ a b Jugnu Mohsin (27 March 2015). "Profile of Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan (1925 – 2015)". The Friday Times newspaper. Archived from the original on 2 October 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b Omar Waraich (29 March 2015). "Profile of Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan". The Independent (UK newspaper). Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2024.

Further reading

  • The Nation that Lost its Soul by Shaukat Hayat Khan, Lahore, 1995
  • Khizar Tiwana by Ian Talbot
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