Seminar on 'Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Freedom Struggle' organized.

RAWALPINDI -- A seminar was organized on 'Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Freedom Struggle' by Jinnah Iqbal South Asian Forum in coordination with Jinnah Iqbal Education Campus Rawalpindi to celebrate Quaid Azam Day here on Monday.

Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan, Chairman Human Rights Commission of Pakistan presided over the seminar.

On the occasion, prominent scholar Mushtaque Gurmani and Rana Abdul Baqi Chairman Forum spoke on various aspects of Jinnah's struggle to achieve Pakistan in the wake of great opposition by the Hindu Congress and the British Indian Government.

In his presidential address, Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan said that Quaid-i-Azam achieved Pakistan by dint of his continuous struggle by translating the vision of Allama Muhammad Iqbal into reality that Indian Muslims are a nation, hence deserved a separate homeland in the areas where Muslims are in majority in the Indian sub-continent.

Justice Chowhan said that education was the key note of Quiad-e-Azam as he always commended Sir Syed Ahmad Khan for Muslim University Aligarh, besides encouraging Muslim Educational Institutions in Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi also donating handsome amounts.

He referred Prof Stanely Wolpert who wrote a book on Jinnah and declared him as the...

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