A PAKISTAN DAY MEMORIAL

To commemorate the Pakistan resolution, in 1960 some of the Muslim League leaders (who had arranged the 1940 session) wished for the local authorities to erect a memorial as a symbol of freedom. Mr. Akhtar Hussain (then Governor of West Pakistan) appealed to the public for contributions for the cause. As a result, a memorial committee and a memorial fund were set up. Turkish architect Murat Khan designed the Minar and built by "Mian Abdul Khaliq and Company" Construction Company. On March 23, 1960, the Governor in a simple ceremony laid its foundation stone----at the very place where the India Muslims had demanded a separate homeland. On March 22, 1968, the main tower of this memorial was completed. It took 10 years to build at a cost of Rs. 500,000. Situated in the middle of Iqbal Park (old Minto Park), the memorial or Minar-e-Pakistan, as we know it, expresses the spirit of the movement for the creation of Pakistan.