ISLAMABAD, Feb 3 (APP):Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, the Muslim leader who coined the word Pakistan was remembered on the occasion of his 69th death anniversary.
Chaudhry Rehmat Ali was born in Hoshiarpur district of eastern Punjab on November 16, 1897. He proposed the advice first time in 1915 during the inauguration session of Bazm-e-Shibli in Islamia College Lahore.He emphasized that northern areas of Hindustan shall change into a Muslin state.
He went to England in 1929 where he published a pamphlet tilted ‘Now or Never’ on January 25, 1933.In this pamphlet he had presented a notion of separate homeland for Muslims of subcontinent and proposed its name ‘Pakistan’.
However Chaudhry Rehmat Ali’s dream came to true on August 1947. In 1933 he founded Pakistan National Movement in England.
Subsequently he obtained a BA Degree in 1933 and MA in 1940 from the University of Cambridge and in1943 he visited the Bar middle Temple Inn London. He died at the age of 53 in England on February 03, 1951 in a hospital of Cambridge, UK and laid to rest.
