Covering Letter
The declaration was circulated with a covering letter signed by Rahmat Ali alone, dated the 28th January 1933,and addressed from 3 Humberstone Road. It read as follows:
3, Humberstone Road,
Cambridge, England.
28 January 1933
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am enclosing herewith an appeal on behalf of the thirty million Muslims of PAKISTAN, who live in the five Northern Units of India—Punjab, North-West Frontier (Afghan) Province, Kashmir, Sind, and Baluchistan. It embodies their demand for the recognition of their national status, as distinct from the other inhabitants of India, by the grant to Pakistan of a separate Federal Constitution on religious, social and historical grounds.
I shall be pleased if you will kindly acquaint me with your valuable opinion on the proposed solution of the great Hindu-Muslim problem. I trust that, vitally interested as you are in a just and permanent solution of that complex problem, the objects outlined in the appeal wiIl meet with your fullest approval and active support.
Yours truly, Rahmat Ali (Choudhary). (Founder, Pakiistan National Movement)
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