Death anniversary of Ch. Rehmat Ali observed

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ISLAMABAD: The 70th death anniversary of prominent leader of Pakistan Movement, who carved, conceived and coined the word Pakistan Chaudhry Rehmat Ali was observed on 3rd February (Wednesday).

He was born in Hoshiarpur district of eastern Punjab on November 16, 1897 in India.

He is credited with creating the name "Pakistan" for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia and is generally known as the founder of the movement for its creation.

He proposed the advice first time in 1915 during the inauguration session of Bazm-e-Shibli in Islamia College Lahore.

In this pamphlet, he presented a notion of separate homeland for Muslims of subcontinent and proposed its name ‘Pakistan’.

In 1933, he founded Pakistan National Movement in England.

He is best known as the author of a famous 1933 pamphlet titled "Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever".

He died on this day in 1951 and was buried at Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

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