Nov 9 announced as public holiday on Allama Iqbal’s birth anniversary

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The government on Tuesday announced November 9 as public holiday in connection with the birth anniversary of the country’s national poet and philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal.

A notification issued by the Prime Minister’s Office dated 08.11.2022 said, “The Prime Minister has been pleased to desire that 9th November (Iqbal Day) shall henceforth be observed as a public holiday”.

Born on November 9, 1877 in Sialkot Punjab province, Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal was a great leader of the Pakistan Movement. He is regarded as great national Sufi poet of the modern age and is a man of great ideas, commitment and dynamics.

Allama Iqbal is not only a great poet and thinker but was also a political statesman and philosopher who infused a revolutionary spirit in the Muslims of the subcontinent through his universal poetry. He earned the title of Allama Iqbal due to his deep thinking, statesmanship and far-sightedness.

Allama Iqbal’s poetry has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, English and several other languages. The poet philosopher died on April 21, 1938 and was laid to rest in Lahore.