ALLAMA Iqbal and Nawab Mohsinul Mulk were the spirit behind political struggle waged by educated men with intellect and integrity. MAJ ensured establishment of Pakistan, despite all odds. Iqbal was born on 9 November 1877 and died on 21April 1938. However, he had laid the foundations, on which a Muslim majority state could be established. Almost all pioneers of our freedom struggle were educated men, who resisted temptations for allotment of lands, which the Raj offered to natives, willing to collaborate with them. By mid-20s Iqbal had realized that powerful elements within Hindu majority, influenced by Damodar Savarkar’s Hindutva ideology, which he propagated through a pamphlet in 1923, would not allow Muslims to exercise their political rights, nor practice their faith. Iqbal wanted Muslims to acquire education in science, arts and economics. He proceeded to England in 1905 to pursue education at Cambridge and qualified as a Barrister at Lincolns Inn and then went to do PHD in Philosophy from University of Munich. He was an advocate of Pan-Islamism and desired that all Muslims, who believe in finality of Prophet........

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