NEW YORK, Aug 07 (APP): With Pakistan’s Independence Day around the corner, a road in New York City’s Queens Borough was named after Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the country’s national poet who visualized and then worked for a separate homeland for Muslims of the sub-continent.<\/p>\n
“Allama Iqbal Avenue” was inaugurated at a well-attend ceremony in Richmond Hill section of Queens, amid loud slogans of “Pakistan Zinda Bad” by people waving the national flag.<\/p>\n
The event marked the culmination of intensive lobbying efforts over a long period by the Pakistani-American community members, with the leading role played by the American-Pakistani Advocacy Group (APAG), a not-for-profit organization. <\/p>\n
“It is a proud moment for all of us,” Ali Rashid, who heads the APAG, told cheering Pakistani-Americans, most of whom attended the ceremony in traditional dresses. <\/p>\n
“It is an Independence Day gift to the Pakistani-American community here as well as to the people of Pakistan,” Rashid, who spearheaded the campaign for honouring Allama Iqbal, added.<\/p>\n
Among those who attended the ceremony included New York City government official and Assembly council members — Ms. Jenifer Rajkumar and David Weprin — who called Allama Iqbal a great thinker and paid tributes to his life and mission.<\/p>\n
In 2019, a section of a busy avenue in Brooklyn — also a borough of New York City — was named after Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in a sign of activism by the Pakistani community. A sign board, bearing the inscription “Mohammad Ali Jinnah Way” was unveiled on the Coney Island Avenue, where the Pakistani community is concentrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW YORK, Aug 07 (APP): With Pakistan’s Independence Day around the corner, a road in New York City’s Queens Borough was named after Allama Muhammad Iqbal, the country’s national poet who visualized and then worked for a separate homeland for Muslims of the sub-continent. “Allama […]<\/p>\n
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