The University of Sargodha paid glowing tribute to Maulana Zafar Ali Khan for his illustrious and invaluable services in journalism, politics, literature and for the independence of Pakistan.
The event titled “Maulana Zafar Ali Khan: A Multidimensional Personality” was jointly organised by the Department of Communication and Media Studies and the Maulana Zafar Ali Khan Trust.
The seminar was attended by the Dean Faculty of Arts and Humanities Dr Ghulam Abbas Gondal, renowned academician Dr Shafiq Jhalandhari, senior journalist Sajjad Mir, Secretary Maulana Zafar Ali Khan Trust Syed Taseer Mustafa and Incharge Department of Communication and Media Studies Noman Yaser. Senior faculty members and students in large number attended the seminar. Speakers at the seminar urged future media practitioners to read and adopt the journalistic values of truthfulness and bravery like Maulana Zafar Ali Khan.
Taseer Mustafa informed the audience that Khan was the foremost leader of the Pakistan Movement, an outstanding journalist, reputed orator and poet of great calibre. He was a huge fan of Pakistan's national poet Allama Iqbal, another ‘son of Sialkot'.
“When Zafar Ali Khan was the editor of the Zamindar newspaper, it was regarded as the premier Urdu newspaper for Muslims, having publication of around 25,000. Dr Shafiq Jhalandhari shed light on Khan's multidimensional personality and said that during that time, Lahore was the hub of Urdu publishers with Hindus owning all three well-known newspapers: Partab, Mehrab, and Vi Bharat.
Khan, on the other hand, and his publication did a lot for igniting the spirit of freedom among Muslims and propagating Pakistan's cause.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 19th, 2021.
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