Like others parts of the country, the 84th death anniversary of the great poet philosopher, Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal was observed with immense respect and admiration in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday.
The people of all 35 districts from Chitral to Khyber and South Waziristan to Kohistan have paid tributes to his great political struggle and poetic services for a separate homeland for the Muslims of the Subcontinent.
In KP, the day was dawned with special prayers in mosques for progress and prosperity of Pakistan and eternal rest of the great leader of South Asia, who envisioned a separate homeland for the muslims of subcontinent during his historic Allabad address in 1930 that was later materialized by Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on August 14, 1947 in the shape of Pakistan. Born on November 9, 1877 in Sialkot Punjab province, Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal was a great leader of Pakistan Movement. He was regarded as great national sufi poet of the modern age.
