In
order to honour the visionary poet and great thinker, Allama Dr. Muhammad,
Pakistan High Commission in Bangladesh commemorated Iqbal Day at the Embassy
premises today, says a press release received here today from Dhaka.
Addressing the ceremony, High
Commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh, Rafiuzzaman Siddiqui, said that
although Pakistanis take special pride in Iqbal, but his flight of imagination
was not confined to any region. He was not only the poet of the Muslims, but of
the entire mankind.
Heads of missions of Iran, Spain,
Turkey, Indonesia, Qater, Maldives, and Nepal also participated in the
ceremony, along with a large number of Pakistani and Bangladeshi community.
A young Bangldeshi lady, Ayesha
Siddiqua, threw light on the life and philosophy of Allama Iqbal expressed
through his poetry.
The High Commissioner of Pakistan
cut the cake of 140th birth anniversary of Allama Muhammad Iqbal.