Q379
The word Pakistan was coined by
A.
Mohammed Iqbal
B.
Jinnah
C.
Abul Kalam Azad
D.
Rahmat Ali
AnswerAnswer: Option D
Solution
Answer: Option D
Solution:
The name of the country was coined in 1933 as Pakistan by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in his pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym ("thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKISTAN") referring to the names of the five northern regions of British India.