Islamabad, Pakistan commemorated the 73rd death anniversary of Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, a key figure in the Pakistan Movement and the visionary who coined the name “Pakistan,” today.
According to Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, born in Hoshiarpur, initiated the Pakistan National Movement in England in 1933. He is renowned for authoring the pivotal 1933 pamphlet “Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever,” which laid the ideological foundations for the creation of Pakistan.
Rehmat Ali passed away on this day in 1951 and was laid to rest at Cambridge in the United Kingdom. His contributions to the Pakistan Movement and his legacy as a thinker and advocate for the independence of Pakistan from British India are remembered and honored across the country.