Choudhry Rahmat Ali

Choudhary Rahmat Ali ( born November 16, 1897 in Balachaur, India, † February 3, 1951 in Cambridge, United Kingdom ) is considered one of the founders of the Pakistan National Movement, for the partition of British India and the establishment of an independent Muslim state called Pakistan began. He is also the creator of the country name "Pakistan ".

Choudhary Rahmat Ali was born in 1897 in the village near Hoshiarpur Balachaur today in the Indian part of the Punjab. After attending school in Jalandhar, he studied law in Lahore. In 1930 he went to England to enroll at the University of Cambridge. There he published on January 28, 1933 his acclaimed essay " Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever ' " ( " Now or Never; Will we live or disappear forever? "), In which he lobbied for the establishment of an independent Muslim state on Indian soil and for the first time the term" Pakstan " as an acronym used for Punjab, Afghania (North West Province), Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan. In 1940 he returned to British India back to attend the convention of the Muslim League in Lahore, on the creation of Pakistan, it was decided ( Lahore resolution ), but the party could not attend. In the same year he returned to England. In 1948 he attended a year earlier dismissed in the independence of Pakistan. As he expressed criticism of the implementation of the founding of the state, he, however, the Pakistani citizenship was denied by Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan. His property was confiscated, and he left penniless Pakistan. Back in Europe, he committed himself to the Muslim minority in India, including at the United Nations. Ali died in February 1951 in Cambridge and was buried there on the Newmarket Road Cemetery.