He was firmly opposed, however to the proposed partition of Indian territory, citing the existence of a Muslim homeland in the Middle East.

In 1930, the poet Muhammad Iqbal proposed a separate Muslim homeland in the northwest of India.

Pakistan was intended as a Muslim homeland, while the new India was secular with a Hindu majority.

Paradoxically, the Bukharians' traditions have kept them from profiting from a technique adapted after centuries of oppression in their predominately Muslim homeland.

Muslim homeland - "Now or Never"

He explains that the seminary opposed the creation of Pakistan, a Muslim homeland.

He is credited with creating the name "Pakistan" for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia.

Mohammed Iqbal first raised the issue of a separate Muslim homeland in 1930.

Rebel groups have been fighting there for 25 years for a separate Muslim homeland.