The day was declared as a public holiday throughout the country and special programmes were chalked out to observe the day. speakers paid glowing homage to Allama Iqbal while exhibitions of books and relics were held at Iqbal Museum Lahore, National Museum Karachi and Iqbal Manzil Sialkot.
Special arrangements were also made to screen documentary films on Iqbal's life in cinema houses. The academy of Lahore arranged a book exhibition for the occasion. The traditional ceremony of change of guards also took place.
Allama Iqbal, born on November 9 1877 in Sialkot, was great representative of the subcontinent and an important personality for the Pakistan movement.
Iqbal was a Sufi poet for the modern age who aroused a revolutionary spirit in the nation through his poetry. His poetry has been translated in Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, English and several other languages and is considered a great philosopher all over the world.
Unfortunately, he could not see the independence of Pakistan and died on April 21, 1938.
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