Iqbal Day observed in Karachi with national zeal.

KARACHI -- The 145th birth anniversary of the Poet of the East Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal was observed on Wednesday with great zeal and national fervor in Karachi like across the country.

Different political, social and educational organizations staged events, including seminars, to commemorate the 'Iqbal Day' in which speakers highlighted the vision of the great poet, philosopher, and dynamic politician Allama Muhammad Iqbal, who envisioned the idea of establishing of a separate homeland for the Muslims of the sub-continent.

They said that Iqbal had united the Muslims of the subcontinent by awaking them to their fundamental right to freedom and his dream of a separate homeland for the Muslims of the subcontinent was realised by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and other Muslim League leaders through their untiring struggle.

They said that Allama Iqbal through his poetry...