Pakistan Movement

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The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan  was a religious political movement in the 1940s that aimed for and succeeded in the creation of Pakistan from the Muslim-majority areas of the British Indian Empire.

The leadership of the movement was educated at Aligarh Muslim University. From the Aligarh Movement, the Indian Muslim community developed a secular political identity. The Pakistan Movement progressed within India alongside the Indian independence movement, but the Pakistan Movement sought to establish a new nation-state that protected the religious identity and political interests of Muslims in Indian subcontinent.

Urdu poets such as Iqbal and Faiz used literature, poetry and speech as a powerful tool for political awareness.

The driving force behind the Pakistan Movement was the Muslim community of the Muslim minority provinces, Provinces and Bombay Presidency, rather than that of the Muslim majority provinces.