President, PM pay tributes to Iqbal
Saifullah Ansar ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday paid rich tribute to national poet and philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal on the occasion of Iqbal Day and his 149th birth anniversary, announcing that the government would launch year-long celebrations leading up to the 150th anniversary of the great thinker’s birth on November 9 next year. In a special message issued on Iqbal Day, they described Allama Iqbal as a visionary philosopher, statesman and intellectual whose ideas awakened political consciousness among the Muslims of the subcontinent and helped shape the movement for an independent homeland.Read More
