Choudhary Rahmat Ali

Choudhry Rahmat Ali () (November 16, 1897 – February 1951) was a Pakistani Muslim nationalist who was one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan. He is credited with creating the name "Pakistan" for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia. He propagated the Scheme of Pakistan with a missionary zeal since its inception in 1933. He also founded Pakistan National Movement to propagate his ideas. A political thinker and an idealist who wanted to save every Indian Muslim from Hindu domination, he condemned Muhammad Ali Jinnah for accepting a smaller Pakistan in 1947. In 1933, he wrote his ideas in the famous pamphlet entitled "Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever", also known as the Pakistan Declaration. The pamphlet started with this famous sentence:

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