The idea of a separate Muslim state for the Muslims of the sub-continent was first presented by the great philosopher, Sir Allama Iqbal in his presidential address to the All-India Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930. He proposed a separate Muslim state at least in the Muslim majority regions of the north-west. Allama Iqbal was of the view that Hindus and Muslims were two separate nations with a different culture, tradition and history and that it was becoming increasingly difficult for Muslims to live in the Hindu dominant India. Later on, in his correspondence with Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, he included the Muslim majority areas in the north-east also in his proposed Muslim state. Three years after his Allahabad address, a group of Muslim students at Cambridge, headed by Chaudhry Rahmat Ali, issued a pamphlet Now or Never in which, drawing letters from the names of the Muslim majority regions they gave the nomenclature of Pakistan to the proposed state.
The goal of separate Muslim state for the Muslims of the Indian sub-continent was eventually realized by Mohammed Ali Jinnah. It was under the leadership of Jinnah, that the Muslims of the sub-continent were able to get a separate homeland for themselves in the form of West Pakistan and East Pakistan. At the time of her creation on 14th August 1947, Pakistan was the first country in the world that was formed not on geographical limitations but on a common ideology shared by the Muslims of the sub-continent. Thus, although West Pakistan and East Pakistan (currently Bangladesh) were separated by thousands of miles, they shared a common culture and ideology. It was only in 1971 that Bangladesh was formed.
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