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'Pakistan Movement' or 'Tehrik-e-Pakistan' (Urdu: 'تحریک پاکستان') is a name given to the Movement carried out by the Muslims of British India to create a separate homeland in fear of losing their dominance over the Hindu majority. This struggle was led by the Muslim League and resulted in the partition of the British Empire. Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was head of the movement. The other Muslim League leaders were: Allama Iqbal, Liaqat Ali Khan, Fatima Jinnah, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, A.K. Fazlul Huq, and Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar.
The Pakistan Resolution was passed in 1940 at Lahore. Muslim League made this resolution its main objective election campaigns. Soon after World War II, the United Kingdom was convinced that keeping its British colonies in South Asia was no longer possible, as the United Kingdom itself was economically shattered by the war. In the end, British India was divided into a Muslim state Pakistan and
a secular India.

The idea of Pakistan was presented by Allama Muhammad Iqbal in 1930. Iqbal asked Jinnah to focus his energies towards getting an independent homeland for Muslims of the South Asia. The name was proposed by Choudhary Rahmat Ali in his Pakistan Declaration^[1] in 1933.

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Timeline

Statements and Sayings

References

Other Leaders

See also

External links

Timeline

★ 1857 War of Independence ★ 1885 Formation of the Indian National Congress ★ 1905 Partition of Bengal ★ 1906 Simla Deputation ★ 1906 Founding of the All-India Muslim League ★ 1909 Minto – Morley Reforms ★ 1911 Annulment of the Partition of Bengal ★ 1914-18 World War I ★ 1916 Lucknow Pact ★ 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre ★ 1919 Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms ★ 1919-23 Khilafat Movement ★ 1922-29 Hindu – Muslim Riots ★ 1927 Delhi Muslim Proposals ★ 1928 Nehru Report ★ 1929 Fourteen Points of Jinnah ★ 1930 Simon Commission Report ★ 1930 Allama Iqbal Address

★ 1930-32 Round Table Conferences ★ 1932 Communal Award (1932) ★ 1933 Now or Never Pamphlet ★ 1935 Government of India Act ★ 1937 Elections ★ 1937-39 Congress Rule in the Provinces ★ 1938 Pirpur Report ★ 1939-45 World War II ★ 1940 Pakistan Resolution ★ 1942 Cripps' mission ★ 1944 Gandhi - Jinnah Talks ★ 1945 The Simla Conference ★ 1946 The Cabinet Mission ★ 1946 Direct Action Day ★ 1946 Interim Government Installed in Office ★ 1946 Quit Kashmmir Campaign as the formation of the interim government of Azad Kashmir ★ 1946 June 3 Partition Plan ★ 1947 Creation of Pakistan

Statements and Sayings

;Allama Iqbal




;Choudhary Rahmat Ali




;Quaid-e-Azam

References

1. Choudhary Rahmat Ali, (1933), ''Now or Never; Are we to live or perish forever?'', pamphlet, published 28 January. (Rehmat Ali then was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge)

Other Leaders

★ Allama Mashriqi

★ Chaudhry Naseer Ahmad Malhi

★ Maulana Zafar Ali Khan

★ Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk

See also

★ A Short History of Pakistan an edited book by I H Qureshi

★ History of Pakistan

★ Pakistan Resolution

External links

★ Important Events at a Glance (1857 to 1947)

★ Pakistan Movement

★ The Pakistan Movement

★ Iqbal and the Pakistan Movement

★ History of Pakistan Movement

★ The Pakistan Movement (Picture Gallery)