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Show 8 ,." its culture, 10 "Iqbal's mind was well ahead of his fellows in 193o_7 but as the months passed, the idea of a Muslim state took shape ••• from Bombay, "Fakistan It Cambridge, , Jinnah, a gaunt and. astringent lawyer left the Indian National Congress and his post 'Ambassador of settled, Mohammad Ali Unity' and took charge of the League, .. as l1 the origin of the word Pakistan is not clearly 'first appeared in 1933 among Muslim students at , , According to one it derived from source P(unjab) A(fghan province) K(Ashmir) S(ind) (Baluchis)TAN, while the least complicated derivation was from, , be •• a became the which means ideology of the Muslim League, Muslim homeland in Indla5 pure At first the idea , , • was or hOly,,12_7 LItJ was to viewed as foolishness, but by 1940 the Muslim League had translated it into a hard Pakistan became political demand. gospel, the very soul of League, the faith for which Muslims were to die, the Muslim The future of wha. t The Congress and the unity.,,13 prime reason for their War II. a was to become of India party led by Gandhi was was made during World intently pursuing its when the "Qui t India" campaign against the Brl tish war broke out, the The Congress leaders decided to continue their resistance to British, The Muslim League the Allied "About cause came out promptly and forthrightly for and enlisted in the British army in great numbers, forces were 'Musalmans', forty percent of the Indian armed fact not overlooked by Mr, Churchill or Mr, actions resulted in their leaders able to fill the a Jinnah,n14 The Congress being jailed and the Muslims were interned Congressmen. positions left vacant by the |
