 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.He was first asked to join the editorial team of the "Pakistan Times" in Lahore by owner Mian Iftikharuddin after the 1947 independence of Pakistan.