Choudhary Rahmat Ali Memorial Society hosted a ceremony in Lahore on Sunday to mark the death anniversary of Choudhary Rahmat Ali, the man who created the word “Pakistan” and made the demand for Pakistan.
Speaking at the ceremony in Lahore’s New Garden Town neighbourhood, the speakers paid rich tributes to this historic figure for his contribution to the struggle for creation of Pakistan.
Choudhary Rahmat Ali had floated the idea of a free Muslim state in Bazm-e-Shibli in 1915. In his popular magazine “Now or Never”, he made the demand for Pakistan in 1933. Later, he floated the ideas of other Muslim states.
On this occasion, the speakers demanded that Choudhary Rahmat Ali’s remains should be brought back from Cambridge, England, and buried at a historic place in Pakistan. They said that essays about his struggle for freedom should be included in syllabus.
Chaudhry Saleem Elahi, Prof Zaid Bin Umar, Chaudhry Anwar Gulzar, Engineer Iftikhar Chaudhry, Prof Jamil Khatana, Chaudhry Muhammad Altaf and Rafique Chaudhry addressed the ceremony.