Editing Pakistan Movement (section)

== Notable quotations ==
; [[Allama Iqbal]]<nowiki>:</nowiki>
{{blockquote|I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.<ref name="res1">[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html Sir Muhammad Iqbal's 1930 Presidential Address] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070205091745/http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html |date=5 February 2007 }}, from Columbia University site</ref><ref name="Dec 1930"/>}}

; [[Choudhry Rahmat Ali]]<nowiki>:</nowiki>
{{blockquote|At this solemn hour in the history of India, when British and Indian statesmen are laying the foundations of a Federal Constitution for that land, we address this appeal to you, in the name of our common heritage, on behalf of our thirty million Muslim brethren who live in ''Pakistan''&nbsp;– by which we mean the five Northern units of India, Viz: Punjab, North-West Frontier Province (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan&nbsp;– for your sympathy and support in our grim and fateful struggle against political crucifixion and complete annihilation.<ref name="cra">Choudhary Rahmat Ali, (1933), ''[[Pakistan Declaration|Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?]]'', [[pamphlet]], published 28 January</ref>}}

; [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]]<nowiki>:</nowiki>
{{blockquote|It is extremely difficult to appreciate why our Hindu friends fail to understand the real nature of Islam and Hinduism. They are not religious in the strict sense of the word, but are, in fact, different and distinct social orders, and it is a dream that the Hindus and Muslims can ever evolve a common nationality, and this misconception of one Indian nation has troubles and will lead India to destruction if we fail to revise our notions in time. The Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs, literature. They neither intermarry nor interdine together and, indeed, they belong to two different civilizations which are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their aspect on life and of life are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Muslims derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different ethics, different heroes, and different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other and, likewise, their victories and defeats overlap. To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built for the government of such a state.<ref name=dt-march>{{cite news|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_jinnah_lahore_1940.html|title=Presidential address by Muhammad Ali Jinnah to the Muslim League Lahore, 1940|publisher=Columbia University|access-date=24 October 2016|archive-date=10 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110125300/http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_jinnah_lahore_1940.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}}