He is considered as the father of Urdu journalism, and Zamindar was at one time the most important paper of the Punjab. In 1908, he came to Lahore and took over the charge of the daily Zamindar, which was founded by his father Maulvi Sirajuddin Ahmad in 1903. He established a literary reputation by his editorship of the Deccan Review and authorship of a number of books of high literary merit. He worked for some time as a translator in Hyderabad, Deccan and rose to the post of Secretary, Home Department. Thereafter, he was appointed secretary to Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk who was then in Bombay. He received his early education in Mission High School, Wazirabad and graduated from Aligarh Muslim University. Writer, poet, journalist and freedom champion, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was born at Kot Mehrath, District Sialkot in 1873.
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