Most of Maulana’s life was spent in politics. He supported the resolution, which resulted in the setting up the All India Muslim League. He participated many times in the annual sessions of the All India Muslim League. The paper was banned and the press was confiscated because of its revolutionary policies. In 1934 when the Punjab Government banned this paper, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan who invariably possessed remarkable courage and mettlesome spirit, sued and got the government orders revoked by the court. The pioneering work of The Comrade (started by Maulana Muhammad Ali) and Zamindar has intrinsically to be duly acknowledged. However, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan and Zamindar rendered matchless services to the Pakistan Movement. Lahore was center of Urdu publications and all the three well-established newspapers: Partab, Mehrab, and Vi Bharat were owned by Hindus. Maulana started his career as a journalist in extremely odd and unfavourable circumstances. It played a great part in the awakening of the Muslim masses and informing their political outlook despite the fact that it had limited circulation since the Muslims lacked industry and commerce with the result that the advertisements were too meagre to cope with the funds needed for the paper. The Zamindar was an Urdu newspaper launched for the Muslims. He is considered as the father of Urdu journalism, and Zamindar was at one time the most important paper of the Punjab. In 1908, he came to Lahore and took over the charge of the daily Zamindar, which was founded by his father Maulvi Sirajuddin Ahmad in 1903. He established a literary reputation by his editorship of the Deccan Review and authorship of a number of books of high literary merit.
He worked for some time as a translator in Hyderabad, Deccan and rose to the post of Secretary, Home Department. Thereafter, he was appointed secretary to Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk who was then in Bombay. He received his early education in Mission High School, Wazirabad and graduated from Aligarh Muslim University. Writer, poet, journalist and freedom champion, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan was born at Kot Mehrath, District Sialkot in 1873.