How did the word "Pakistan" come into existence?

 

            Ch.Rehmat Ali was the first person who used the word "Pakistan". He said : "For, although I actually named it such much earlier, it was not until 28th January, 1933, that, in my first Declaration - Now or Never - calling for its separation from "India" I formally used the name, which by the dispensation of Allah and the blessing of His Rasool (Prophet), was ordained to ensure the elementary right of its people to a national solidarity under a national appellation. In his book "Pakistan- the Fatherland of the Pak Nation" he said : "It was in the (Now or Never) that I first used for our Indian homelands the name Pakistan, which I had invented for our combined Indian and Asian homelands, and about which the following brief explanation may be given here :-
 
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