 In 1951, when the then newspaper editor Faiz Ahmed Faiz was arrested due to his suspected involvement in the Rawalpindi conspiracy case, Mazhar Ali Khan replaced him.Mian Iftikharuddin had earlier launched "The Pakistan Times" to rally and win Punjab's support for the Pakistan Movement and its cause.He remained its editor until 19 April 1959, when Ayub Khan's military regime seized the newspaper and its sister publications, the Urdu-language newspaper "Daily Imroze" and the magazine "Lail-o-Nahar".