He also authored and published "The Road to Peace and Pakistan" in 1944, and My Leader in 1945; all of which greatly exhorted the political objectives of the Pakistan Movement and the independence from the British India of the British Empire.[1][4] In 1946, he departed to the United Kingdom but returned to Pakistan after the partition by the United Kingdom.[4] Immediately after his return, he was appointed assistance editor of the English language newspaper, the Dawn.[4] He left Dawn when the Pakistan Times was started in 1947, and took the assignment as its correspondent in London.[4] For sometime, he remained associated with the Pakistan Army and briefly served in Inter-Services Public Relations, which he eventually becoming its director-general and achieved the rank of Colonel in 1965.[5]