 Mazhar Ali Khan's professional career may be divided into three parts – for the first 12 years, he wrote for "The Pakistan Times" which flourished under his editorial control and won the respect of the people.Mazhar Ali Khan never joined a political party to be able to preserve his editorial independence.The owner of the newspaper, Mian Iftikharuddin, also deserves some credit here because he chose not to interfere in the editor's domain.