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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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