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The '''Pakistan Declaration''' (titled '''Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?''') was a [[pamphlet]] published in January 1933 by [[Choudhary Rahmat Ali]] in which the word [[Pakistan]] was used for the first time.<ref name="Dawn">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dawn.com/events/pml/review23.htm |title=Nationalists who made the difference... - DAWN Group of Newspapers, 2006 |access-date=2008-11-19 |archive-date=2008-12-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204184326/http://www.dawn.com/events/pml/review23.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The pamphlet was written when Pakistan was part of British India. The pamphlet asked that "the five Northern [[Province|units]] of [[British India|India]]"  - '''P'''unjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ('''A'''fghan Province), '''K'''ashmir, '''S'''indh and Baluchis'''tan''' (or Pakstan)<ref>[http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_11-2-2004_pg3_6 THE HISTORY MAN: Cambridge remembers Rahmat Ali —Ihsan Aslam - Daily Times]</ref> become an independent state and not part of [[India]].

After the pamphlet was published the name of Pakistan became very popular and led to the [[Pakistan Movement]]. Fourteen years after the pamphlet was published, in 1947, Pakistan became an independent state.<ref name="Dawn"/>

== Pakistan Declaration Media ==
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== References ==
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