Nation to pay homage to Poet of the East

LAHORE - The 132nd birthday of national poet Dr Allama Mohammad Iqbal will be celebrated tomorrow (Monday) in a befitting manner. The government has declared holiday in schools, colleges and courts. The Jail Road traders will also observe holiday on the day. The newspapers will bring out special supplements on the poet and philosopher of the East while radio and TV channels will also air special programmers on Dr Iqbal. Various literary, social and religious organisations will lay floral wreath at the mazar of Allama Iqbal while special meetings to highlight the life and works of Allama Iqbal will also be held at different places in the City. PU Vice Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran will lead a big carawan of students and teachers to Mazar-e-Iqbal to lay floral wreath. They will assemble at Faisal Auditorium, New Campus, in the morning to proceed to the mazar. Later a meeting will be held in which scholars will throw light on the life and works of Allama Iqbal and also singing of kalam-e-Iqbal. Iqbal Academy Pakistan will organise an Iqbal Day function at Iqbal Academy, Aiwan-e-Iqbal Complex, at 4 pm. Dr Javed Iqbal will preside over the function. Dr Israr Ahmad, Prof Fateh Mohammad Malik, Iftikhar Arif, Zaid Hamid and others will address. Allama Iqbal Medical College will also organise a special sitting on Allama Iqbal on November 10 at 10 am. Dr Israr Ahmad will preside over while Ayaz Amir and Prof Muzaffar Irza will address on the occasion. Nazria Pakistan Trust in collaboration with Tehrik-e-Pakistan Workers Trust has launched celebraton of the Iqbal Day week till November 9. The NPT delegation led by its Chairman Majid Nizami will lay floral wreath at Mazar-e-Iqbal and offer fateha. Later a meeting will be also held at the Aiwan-e-Karkunan Tehrik-e-Pakistan. The Iranian Consulate General will also organise a meeting at Iranian Cultural Centre, Gulberg. The books on Iqbal will also be displayed at eh centre. Various schools and colleges will also organise singing competitions on kalam-e-Iqbal. In Shehr-e-Iqbal, Kainat Welfare Foundation will organise a special meeting at SARCO Hotel, Cantt, and Government Girls Higher Secondary School for Girls. A number of literary personalities will speak on the occasion while students will sing kalam-e-Iqbal. People will also visit Iqbal Manzil at Sialkot, the ancestral home of the national poet.

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