23rd March
\n PESHAWAR
\nThe 23rd March 1940 is a momentous day in the history of subcontinent that signified Muslims\u2019 epic struggle and strong commitment for Pakistan.
\nRejecting the negative policies of Congress and offers of colonial masters, the Muslims of Indo-Pakistan subcontinent had united at Iqbal Park Lahore in 1940 where that set a clear direction for creation of Pakistan.
\nLike other provinces of Pakistan, the Khyber Pakthunkhwa\u2019s people had extended allout support to the Father of the Nation Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah when he came here to mobilize its people for Pakistan following an adoptation of the historic resolution.
\nThe arrival of the great leader committed to the cause of a separate homeland for Muslims had moved the people of KP (then NWFP) whom decorated their homes, bazaars, vehicles, and towns with Muslim League flags inscribed with different slogans of Pakistan and Quaid-i-Azam Zindabad besides showered rose petals on their beloved Quaid.
\nQuaid-i-Azam had received a rousing welcome when he came to Peshawar in 1945 at Peshawar and later Islamia College Peshawar (ICP).
\nFrom Chitral to DI Khan and Waziristan to Kohistan, the people of all 37 districts of Khyber Pakthunkhwa arrived to see few glimpses of the legandry Quaid besides raised full throated slogans of Pakistan and Quaid e Azam Zindabad.
\n\u201cThe students of Muslim Students Federation of ICP had presented him Rs 8,000 as fund for the Pakistan Movement and assured him to present 8,000 committed educated workers for accomplishment of his great mission when he came again to ICP\u201d said former Vice Chancellor ICP, Professor Dr Muhamnad Naushad Khan while talking to APP.
\n\u201cIt was the love of people of KP with Quaid-i-Azam that Muslim League had won more than 50 seats in this province and after that nobody could stop independence movement of Pakistan from here.\u201d
\nHe said Quaid-i-Azam visited Islamia College Peshawar three times in his life to acknowledge the outstanding role of its students for Pakistan.
\nVisited ICP in 1936, 1945 and 1948, the legandry Quaid was greatly impressed by the devotion of its faculty, staff and students besides the building\u2019s domes, lush-green lawns, and majestic edifice of its beautiful architecture.
\nDr Naushad said that Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had considered students of ICP and people of KP as a frontline force in his constitutional and peaceful struggle for independence of Pakistan.
\nIn his last visit to the ICP as Governor General of Pakistan on April 12, 1948, the great Quaid presented glowing tributes to the services of its students towards making of Pakistan in these words.
\n\u201cI am indeed very happy to be present here today and to have the privilege of addressing the students of this great Darul Uloom, who are the future builders of Pakistan.\u201d
\nIn fact, he reminded the students that now we have achieved the national goal of Pakistan and it was our collective responsibility to work hard in our respective professions with high-level of dedication, commitment and sincerity to make it one of the greatest state of the world.
\nHe advised the students to develop a sound sense of discipline, character, initiative and a solid academic background and devote themselves wholeheartedly towards studies.
\n\u201cNow we have our own government, therefore, we must be constructive in criticism and students can make a big contribution towards promotion of harmony, unity and development of Pakistan.\u201d
\nQuaid-i-Azam while addressing students said that remember your government was like your own garden. \u201cYour 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
\nOn students\u2019 demands, he said establishment of a quality university in Peshawar was very nearer to his heart, which would be great centre of culture and learning from where the rays of knowledge and culture can spread upto the Middle East and Central Asia and soon people of this province would get a quality university here.
\nFollowing a gap of one year, the Government of Pakistan, had established the University of Peshawar near Islamia College Peshawar in 1949.
\nQuaid-i-Azam also became an honorary member of the Khyber Union, a debating society of the college, in 1936.
\nHe said Mr. Jinnah\u2019s love for ICP could be judged from his will written on May 30, 1939 in Bombay in which he declared ICP, Muslim University Aligarh and Sindh Madrassatul Islam, Karachi, as among the inheritors of his property.
\nThe Quaid Trust later paid Rs10.81 million in different installments to the college. The amount was spent on the establishment of Quaid-i-Azam College of Commerce, University of Peshawar, construction of Jinnah residential quarters for the college employees, Jinnah College for Women and the newly-constructed Takbeer block.
\nDr Naushad Khan said that it was a day of making a firm pledge to work hard in our respective field for progress and prosperity of Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
23rd March PESHAWAR The 23rd March 1940 is a momentous day in the history of subcontinent that signified Muslims\u2019 epic struggle and strong commitment for Pakistan. Rejecting the negative policies of Congress and offers of colonial masters, the Muslims of Indo-Pakistan subcontinent had united at Iqbal Park Lahore in 1940 where that set a clear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n