ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of Tajikistan Sherali Jononov on Friday said Pakistan was fortunate because the country has leaders like Allama Muhammad Iqbal who had waged an exemplary struggle, both through literature and political means, to get a separate homeland for Muslims.
Ambassador of Tajikistan expressed these views while speaking on the occasion of a conference on Allama Iqbal held under the aegis of Muslim Institute. “Allama Muhammad Iqbal was a distinguished poet, a brilliant scholar and a gifted philosopher, but, above all else, he was a true visionary,” the ambassador said.
“Pakistan was fortunate to have him as its ideological founder. It was at the Allahabad session of the Muslim League in 1930 that Iqbal became the first politician to articulate the two-nation theory that ultimately led to the creation of Pakistan on August 14, 1947,” Jononov added.
The ambassador added that Iqbal was not only one of the greatest poets to live but also the most serious Muslim philosophical thinker of modern times. He said Iqbal was popular among the Tajik people too.
