align: justify;">ISLAMABAD, Nov 27 (APP):Renowned writer, poet, journalist and leader of the Pakistan Movement Maulana Zafar Ali Khan remembered on his 68th death anniversary on Wednesday.
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align: justify;">Maulana Zafar Ali Khan also known as Baba-e-Sahafat (father of journalism) was born in 1873 in Sialkot.
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align: justify;">He fought the freedom movement with his pen and used it as a unifier for burgeoning the required nationalism in the Muslim community which would be remembered as the father of Urdu Journalism.
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align: justify;">Later, he worked for some time as a Translator in Hyderabad Deccan, rising to the post of Secretary Home Department.
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align: justify;">He returned home on his father’s death in 1909 and took over as Editor Urdu Newspaper ‘Zamindar’ which became one of the most influential newspapers of the sub-continent.
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align: justify;">The paper was banned and the press was confiscated because of its revolutionary policies.
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align: justify;">He participated many times in the annual sessions of the All India Muslim League.
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align: justify;">Maulana Zafar Ali Khan remained a Member of the Central Legislative Assembly from 1937 to 1945 and was re-elected to it as a Muslim League Member in 1946. Most of Maulana’s life was spent in politics.
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align: justify;">He was a great poet, an orator, an essayist of exceptional merit and a Journalist. His interest in poetry began in his childhood and his poems were full of religious and political sentiments.
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align: justify;">His poetical output has been published in ‘Baharistan’, ‘Nigaristan’ and ‘Chamanistai1’.
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align: justify;">His other works are ‘Ma’arka-e-Mazhab-o-Science’, ‘Ghalba-e-Rumi’, ‘Sayr-e-Zulmat’ and an opera ‘Jang-e-Roos-o-Japan’.
align: justify;">Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was died on November 27, 1956, at the age of 83 in Wazirabad.
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