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IslamabadThe nation will pay tribute to great national poet and philosopher Dr. Allama Mohammad Iqbal in connection with his up-coming 131st birth anniversary today (Sunday).
Social, cultural, educational and literary organizations have planned different programmes and activities to mark the day and pay homage to the man who envisioned a separate homeland for the Muslims of India which led to creation of Pakistan, a private TV news channel reported.
Educational institutions across the country will arrange speech, quiz and poetry competitions in connection with the day.
However, Fateha and Quran Khwani will be held at mosques and the mazar of Allama Iqbal. A large number of people will also visit his mazar to pay their homage to the poet of the East.
Allama Muhammad Iqbal was born on November 9, 1877 in Sialkot and died on April 21, 1938. He was a Muslim Poet, Philosopher and Politician.
His poetry in Urdu, Arabic and Persian is considered to be among the greatest of the modern era and whose vision of an independent state for the Muslims of British India was to inspire the creation of Pakistan.
His writings, poetry and sayings kindled a new light and aroused a sense of respect, self-realization and determination in the muslims. He has awakened the muslims of sub-continent and convinced them to demand a separate homeland where they can live with dignity and exercise their social, religious and cultural rights.
Iqbal was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilisation across the world, but specifically in India; a series of famous lectures he delivered to this effect were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam.
Being one of the most prominent leaders of the All India Muslim League, Iqbal encouraged the creation of a state in northwestern India for Indian Muslims in his 1930 presidential address.
Iqbal encouraged and worked closely with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and he is known as Muffakir-e-Pakistan The Thinker of Pakistan, Shair-e-Mashriq The Poet of the East, and Hakeem-ul-Ummat The Sage of Ummah. He is officially recognised as the National Poet in Pakistan.AP
Obama calls Zardari, may meet soon
IslamabadPresident Asif Ali Zardari is likely to meet US President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden during his trip to the United States next week to attend an inter-faith conference.
A request for the meeting had been forwarded to the president-elects transition team, a source in the Foreign Office said on Friday.
President Zardari will leave Islamabad on Tuesday for the conference to be held in New York on November 13 and 14. Tentatively President Zardari is to return home on November 14, but he may extend the visit by a day or two, the source said.
Although, Obama is preoccupied these days with transition arrangements, the Foreign Office is hopeful of securing an appointment.
Meanwhile the US President-elect Barack Obama on Friday spoke by telephone with leaders of six US allies including Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari to thank them for their messages of congratulation, an aide said.
This afternoon President-elect Obama returned calls to several leaders who earlier in the week had expressed congratulations on his election, a member of Obamas transition team said in a statement.
They included President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain.
The 47-year-old future commander-in-chief spoke with the president on Friday in the midst of strained relations between the two allies.
According to Zardaris initial itinerary, he was to visit only New York, but now he is expected to travel to Washington and Chicago to meet Obama and Biden.
It is learnt that Zardari intends to use the opportunity to reiterate Pakistans resolve to deal with the menace of terrorism on its own.
The president also wishes to discuss the Kashmir issue with Obama who during his campaign had indicated that he would work with Pakistan and India to try to resolve the problem.
Obama has also indicated that he may appoint former US president Bill Clinton as his special envoy on Kashmir.
The president also intends to discuss with Obama and Biden the fast deteriorating economic situation of Pakistan and pursue the Biden-Lugar aid plan which calls for a $1.5 billion annual non-military spending to support Pakistans economic development.
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