23rd March
\n PESHAWAR
\nFaced with endless disparity, inequality and discrimination in that era of darkness and oppression, the Muslims who ruled Indo-Pakistan subcontinent for nearly 800 years, were pushed to the wall by the colonial masters as they considered them arch rival after the failure of the War of Independence 1857.
\nDeprived Muslims of all kinds of political, economic, human rights and liberties, the colonial masters who grabbed power under the guise of East India Company after overthrowing last Mughal Ruler Bahadar Shah Zafar started tilted towards socioeconomic, political and educational empowerment of the Hindus.
\nThis great injustice has furthered increased the intellectual, political and educational decay of the Muslims after they were almost out of government jobs, education, civil and military services.
\nDuring that era of darkness and oppression, the Muslims were given a new hope and direction by the renowned educationist and political thinker, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, who instilled a new hope, direction and dynamism among oppressed Muslims following an inspirational teaching of the great religious leaders, Mojadad Alf Sani and Shah Waliullah.
\nBrought about an intellectual revolution among the Muslims through educational, political and social reforms, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan on one side nullified the malicious propaganda of the colonial rulers, Hindus viz a viz pessimist forces and brought Muslims of British India out of the ominous and oppression on the other side besides enabling them to regain their past glory.
\nThe All India Muhammadan Educational Conference (AIMEC) Aligarh founded by Sir Syed in 1886 had empowered the Muslims with modern education, socio-economic development and political unity, helping them to gain ground in that era of hatred and pessimism.
\nThe network of educational institutions, political and social unity under AIMEC had significantly enabled millions of Muslims soon to compete with other communities including Hindus and provided a launching pad for Muslims to initiate a peaceful political and democratic struggle for a separate homeland in the subcontinent.
\nMuhammad Youas Khan, Chairman, Political Science Department, Islamia College Peshawar told APP that Sir Syed had broken the British-Hindu nexus after its goal-oriented multi-sectoral reforms that excelled followers of Islam in education, social, economic and political sciences, resultantly their voices were strongly heard.
\nHe said the foundation of All India Muslim League (AIML) on December 30, 1906 in Dhaka had united Muslims by giving new impetus to the independence movement for Pakistan.
\n\u201cThe freedom movement had witnessed further momentum after Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah spearheaded it after formally joining AIML in 1913 and outlining of an independent state for Muslims majority provinces in North Western India by the great poet-philosopher Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal during historic Allahabad\u2019s address in 1930.
\nThus, Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal became the first politician to articulate the two-nation theory that Muslims were a distinct nation and deserved political independence from other regions and communities of the united India.
\n\u201cPakistan movement had passed through different phases and finally achieved its practical shape in 1933 during a high-level gathering in London where Chaudhary Rehmat Ali presented the name of Pakistan,\u201d he said.
\nRecalling Rehmat Ali\u2019s famous saying \u2018now or never or perish forever,\u2019 he said the two former students, Aslam Khattak and Inayatullah Khan of Charsadda along with other Muslims leaders endorsed the name of Pakistan.
\n\u201cPakistan\u2019s name and Allahabad\u2019s historic address had set a clear direction to the Muslims to achieve Pakistan.\u201d
\nUnder the dynamic leadership of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, millions of Muslims assembled at Iqbal Park in Lahore on March 23, 1940 where they passed the historic Pakistan\u2019s Resolution.
\nFollowing the adoption of the Pakistan Resolution, Quaid-i-Azam reorganized AIML on modern lines and made repeated visits to all Muslims majority provinces including KP (earlier called NWFP) to mobilize masses for Pakistan.
\nCommitted to the noble cause, the legendary Quaid received a historic welcome when he visited Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamia College Peshawar (ICP) in 1945 where a sea of people arrived to see a few glimpses of their beloved leader.
\nYousaf said that it was the love of the people of KP with the great Quaid that AIML secured over 50 seats in the province during 1946 elections, rejected Congress and after that historic victory, nobody could stop the independence movement from this province.
\nFinally, Pakistan came into being on August 14, 1947 on the world map within seven years after the adoption of the Pakistan Resolution on March 23, 1940.
\n\u201cThe Pakistan Movement\u2019s history could not be completed without mentioning the historic role of Islamia College Peshawar\u2019s (ICP) students,\u201d he said, adding the legendary Quaid visited ICP in 1936, 1945 and 1948 to acknowledge the outstanding role of its students during the Pakistan Movement.
\nOn April 12, 1948, Quaid-i-Azam visited ICP as the first Governor General of Pakistan where he presented glowing tributes to the services of its students towards making Pakistan in these words.
\n\u201cI am indeed very happy to be present here today and to have the privilege of addressing students of this great Darul Uloom, who are the future builders of Pakistan.
\nRemember your government is like your own garden. Your garden flourishes by the way you look after it and the efforts that you put towards its improvement. Similarly, your government can only flourish by your patriotic, honest and constructive efforts to improve it.\u201d
\nHe wished to construct a university near ICP that was fulfilled by the government within a gap of one year by establishing University of Peshawar in 1949.
\nThe Quaid had an immense love for tribesmen of merged tribal districts (Erstwhile FATA) for their strong commitment, loyalty, sacrifices and consistent support during the Pakistan movement acknowledged by him during his address at Grand Tribal Jira at Governor House, Peshawar on April 17, 1948.
\nHe laid great emphasis on education and socio-economic development of tribesmen and considered technical education, science and technology as prerequisites for attaining goals of sustained development and economic prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
23rd March PESHAWAR Faced with endless disparity, inequality and discrimination in that era of darkness and oppression, the Muslims who ruled Indo-Pakistan subcontinent for nearly 800 years, were pushed to the wall by the colonial masters as they considered them arch rival after the failure of the War of Independence 1857. Deprived Muslims of all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n