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The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan refers to
the successful historical movement against British Raj and Indian
Congress to have an independent Muslim state named Pakistan created from
the separation of the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent,
partitioned within or outside the British Indian Empire.
It had its origins in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (present day
Uttar Pradesh). Muslims there were a minority, yet their elite had a
disproportionate amount of representation in the civil service and a
strong degree of cultural and literary influence. The idea of Pakistan
spread from Northern India through the Muslim diaspora of this region,
and spread outwards to the Muslim communities of the rest of India.
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This movement was led by lawyer Muhammad Ali Jinnah, along with other
prominent founding fathers of Pakistan including Allama Iqbal, Liaqat
Ali Khan, Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Aga Khan III, Fatima Jinnah, Bahadur
Yar Jung, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman, A.K.
Fazlul Huq, Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, Jogendra Nath Mandal, Victor
Turner, Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, and Dr. Sir Ziauddin Ahmed.
The movement ultimately achieved success in 1947, when part of northwest
India was partitioned, granted independence and renamed Pakistan.
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After a hard and heroic struggle by the Muslims of the sub- continent,
the British Parliament was forced to approve the Indian Independence
Act, 1947 leading to the birth of Pakistan on 14th August. 1947. On this
historic day the Quaid-e-Azam, while addressing the first session of
Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in Karachi eulogised the services and
sacrifices of the Muslims of the Sub-continent to achieve Pakistan, in
the following words:-
"My thoughts are with the valiant fighters in our cause who readily
sacrificed all they had, including their live,. To make Pakistan
Possible.”
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