In recent times I am very impressed with the work Barun Roy is doing in his blog http://beacononline.wordpress.com/. Through the exchange of emails, we do correspondence and I too had an opportunity to get published some of my articles. With Barun Roy's blog each day I get to read new information from the past that gives me immense pleasure. In today's news, he put on a proposed map of Pakistan designed by Chaudary Rehmat Ali and the interesting input there is the region of Sikkim merged in it. The map is set prior to pre-independence days. Ali is the founder of the Pakistan National Movement. He coined the word "Pakistan" for 30 million Muslims who lived in the five northern units of India; Punjab, North West Frontier (Afghan) Province, Kashmir, Sindh and Baluchistan. He spoke of an independent homeland for Muslims, Pakistan, in the northern units of India, "Bang-i-Islam" for Muslims in Bengal, and "Usmanistan" for the Muslims in Hyderabad-Deccan...
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