LAHORE - Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Chairman and The Nation Editor-in-Chief Dr Majid Nizami has said that students played a pivotal role in the creation of Pakistan. Muhammad Malik sacrificed his life on the altar of his homeland when he was a student.
He expressed these views during a ceremony to mark death anniversary of the first student Muhammad Malik, who embraced martyrdom during the Pakistan Movement.
He was presiding over a ceremony held at the Aiwan-i-Karkunaan-i-Tehreek-i-Pakistan and jointly organised by the Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust and Pakistan Movement Workers Trust. Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust Secretary Shahid Rasheed and a large number of teachers and students were present on the occasion.
Dr Majid Nizami reminisced that Muhammad Malik was his class-fellow at the Islamia College, Railway Road. The students took out a procession in protest against the Ministry of Khizar Hayat and when the procession passed by the Sinatan Dharm College (now MAO College), the Hindu Students started pelting stones and bricks on the students. One of the bricks hit Muhammad Malik and he breathed his last. Dr Majid Nizami reminisced that he kept his martyred friend’s blood-stained shirt with great heart. He observed that the students from the Islamia College, the Aligarh University and the Islamia College Peshawar played a glorious part in gaining Pakistan.
A delegation from the Nazaria-i-Pakistan Trust under the headship of Professor Dr Rafique Ahmad visited the shrine of Muhammad Malik and laid a wreath of flowers on the martyr’s grave and offered Fateha. Flowers were also placed on behalf of Dr Majid Nizami.