<h1 style="text-align: center; "> </h1> <p><span style="font-family: Arial; "> </span></p> <h1 style="text-align: center; "> <u><b style="text-align: center; ">PTI UAE celebrated Iqbal Day</b></u></h1> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><b>PTI ??? UAE MESSAGE ON??? IQBAL DAY???</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 13.5pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); ">Dubai - 9TH November, 2012, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); ">Founding Member of PTI-UAE Chapter and X-info. Secretary for PTI Middle East Mian Awais Anjum was invited by Professional Forum as guest speaker.  The event was organized by the Professional Pakistani Forum to celebrate 135th birth anniversary ofgreat thinker and poet Dr. Alama Mohammed Iqbal???.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 13.5pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); ">While addressing to a large gathering of Pakistani professionals includes Doctors, Engineers, Professors, Journalists, Businessmen and prominent figures from different field of life, he said that the purpose of celebrating Iqbal Day is basically to highlight the messages, thoughts and ideology of Allama Iqbal. He said that Iqbal was a great poet, sage, philosopher and thinker who infused revolutionary spirit in the nation through his poetry. Though he is not amongst us, his verse, immortal as it is, is always there to guide us and to inspire us. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 13.5pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); ">His poetry, besides being beautiful in form and sweet in language, presents to us a picture of the mind and heart of this great poet, and we find how deeply he was devoted to the teachings of Islam. Dr. Iqbal was not merely a preacher and philosopher but he stood for courage and action, perseverance and self-reliance, and above all faith in God and devotion to Islam. In his person were combined the idealism of the poet and the realism of the man who takes a practical view of things. Faith in God and unceasing and untiring action is the essence of his message. And in this he emerges truly Islam. He had an unflinching faith in Islamic principles, and success in life meant to him the realization of ones "self", and to achieve this end the only means was to follow the teachings of Islam. His message to humanity is action and realization of ones self.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 13.5pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); ">Although a great poet and philosopher he was no less a practical politician. With his firm conviction and faith in the ideals of Islam, he was one of the few who originally thought over the feasibility of carving out of India such an Islamic state in the North-West and North-East Zones which are historical homelands of Muslims.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 13.5pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); ">To conclude his speech he said???, I wholeheartedly associate myself with the celebrations of this "Iqbal Day", and assure all of you that PTI leadership has a very clear vision and aim to implement the ideals preached of our National Poet in orderto give a practical shape to these ideals in an efforts to achievea sovereign, progressive and better Pakistan which was the real dream of ???Dr. Alama Mohammed Iqbal???. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Palatino Linotype","serif";color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>