Iqbal Day: Government announces public holiday on November 9
07 November, 2024 12:19
The federal government has announced a public holiday across the country on the birthday of Allama Iqbal falls on November 9.
The Cabinet Division has issued notification regarding the public holiday. Various ceremonies will be organised in connection with the Iqbal Day on the day.
The poet of the East, the thinker of Pakistan Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal was born on November 9, 1877 in Sialkot. After receiving his primary education in his hometown, he became a lawyer in 1905 in Great Britain and later received a PhD in philosophy from Germany.
After returning home in 1910, Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal awakened the intellectually and politically dispersed Muslims from slumber through poetry.
Allama Iqbal breathed his last in Lahore on 21 April 1938. He was buried on the premises of Badshahi Masjid.
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