The nationalist Choudhry Rahmat Ali was born in 1895 and passed away four years later after the creation of Pakistan. He was among the advocates of the creation of a separate homeland for the Muslims of the Sub-continent. He is honored for the creation of the name of “Pakistan.” The creative Rahmat Ali has created the name when he was at the University of Cambridge studying Law in 1933. He issued the name in his first pamphlet “Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?” In this pamphlet, he has given the reason for the creation of a separate country “Pakistan”.
The enthusiastic Rahmat Ali has started his famous pamphlet with these words “At this solemn hour in the history of India, when British and Indian statesmen are laying the foundations of a Federal Constitution for that land, we address this appeal to you, in the name of our common heritage, on behalf of our thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKISTAN – by which we mean the five Northern units of India, Viz: Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir, Sind, and Baluchistan.”
He is the one who persuaded people towards the partition movement and motivated them even to fight for the movement. After the independence of Pakistan, he was not happy because what he had written in his pamphlet was larger than what they have gained. He was the one who raised the issue of Kashmir in the United Nation and also argued for the rights of Muslims in India.
