Discuss how Pakistan got its name “Pakistan” as a country.

The name Pakistan or Pak-stan (from Punjab, Afghan Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan) was coined by a Punjabi Muslim student at Cambridge, Choudhry Rehmat Ali, who, in pamphlets written in 1933 and 1935, desired a separate national status for this new entity. No one took Rehmat Ali seriously in the 1930s least of all the League and other Muslim leaders who dismissed his idea merely as a student’s dream.