PAC holds digital art exhibition on Allama Iqbal

Iqbal festival held in memory of national poet

RAWALPINDI:

A digital art exhibition was organised in connection with the Iqbal Festival at the Punjab Arts Council on Tuesday.

President of Pakistan Green Task Force Dr Jamal Nasir, who was chief guest at the inaugural ceremony, said that Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal was one of the leading thinkers, poets, writers, jurists, politicians, Muslim Sufi, and one of the most important figures of the Pakistan movement. He added that Allama Iqbal had given rise to the idea of an independent state among the Muslims of the subcontinent; "his words had such power" that he encouraged the Muslim Ummah to "struggle for their rights and take steps forward for freedom,".

Dr Nasir said that Iqbal was a philosopher and revolutionary leader who chose poetry as the most effective means of expression at that time to convey his ideas to the people. Punjab Arts Council Director Waqar Ahmad underlined that Pakistan was the "realization of Iqbal's dream".

Published in The Express Tribune, November 9^th, 2022.