Iqbal_Day
Iqbal Day
Public holiday in Pakistan
Iqbal Day (Urdu: یومِ اقبال, romanized: Yōm-e Iqbāl) is the birthday of Muhammad Iqbal on 9 November. The day was a public holiday in all provinces and federal administrative areas of Pakistan until 2015.[1][2] The Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Again restored public holiday in 2022. Iqbal, a poet and philosopher, was a great inspiration for the Pakistan Movement.[3]