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- ↑ Choudhary Rahmat Ali (28 January 1933). Now or Never. Are we to live or perish forever?
- ↑ The Idea of Pakistan, by Stephen Philip Cohen Brookings Institution Press (September 2004), p.26
- ↑ Khursheed Kamal Aziz (1987). Rahmat Ali: a biography, Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden.
- 1 2 What does the Pakistan National Movement Stand For?
- 1 2 Khursheed Kamal Aziz (1987). Rahmat Ali: a biography. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden
- ↑ "Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?" Archived 2011-04-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "THE HISTORY MAN: Cambridge remembers Rahmat Ali —Ihsan Aslam - Daily Times".
- ↑ Khursheed Kamal Aziz (1987). Rahmat Ali: a biography.p.114
