AJK PM, president pay tribute to Allama Iqbal

MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister and President Azad Jammu & Kashmir paid tributes to poet and philosopher Allama Iqbal on his birth anniversary.

In their messages, AJK PM Chaudhry Anwar ul Haq and President Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry said that Iqbal was a gifted poet, great intellectual, thinker and philosopher par excellence who devoted his life to awake the Muslim world from deep slumber.

Allama Iqbal was such a towering personality of the subcontinent that the whole Muslim Ummah feels proud of him, they said.

Iqbal, they said, was the man who conceptualized and presented the idea of Pakistan and awakened the feelings of Muslim nationhood amongst the Muslims in the subcontinent.

Referring to Allama Iqbal’s multifaceted personality, they said, Iqbal was a great poet, jurist and visionary politician.

His message of unity was universal, they said, adding that he always encouraged Muslims to actively explore and find the ways and means to fulfill the new demands of life.

Iqbal had specifically mentioned the suffering and plight of the Kashmiri people in his poetry, they said, adding, “It is a matter of great pride for us that Allama Iqbal also belongs to the land of Kashmir.”

“Kashmir was an integral part of Iqbal’s dream of a separate homeland for the Muslims of the subcontinent”, they said. They regrettably noted that it was quite painful that Iqbal’s dream could not be materialized fully as a major part of the state was still reeling under India’s belligerent occupation.

They, however, maintained that the valiant people of Kashmir would achieve their cherished goal of freedom from Indian occupation. The day is not far when the people of Kashmir will be free, and the dream of the poet of the East will become a reality, they said.