Overview
- News outlets reported nationwide observances on November 16 honoring the advocate credited with coining the country’s name and shaping the Pakistan Movement.
- In 1933, while in Cambridge, he published the pamphlet “Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?” that introduced the term “Pakistan.”
- He founded the Pakistan National Movement in England in 1933 to advance a separate Muslim homeland.
- He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, earned BA and MA degrees, and was called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1943.
- Born in 1897 in Hoshiarpur, he taught at Aitchison College, studied law at Punjab University, continued publishing until 1947, visited Pakistan in 1948, and died in Cambridge in 1951.