ABSTRACT
The Freedom Movement was gaining momentum in Calcutta and it was the British-owned newspaper the Statesman, published in Calcutta, realized the importance of catering to the viewpoint of the Muslim masses. From 1938 to 1939 Altaf Husain remained the Principal of Dacca College and from there was recalled to Calcutta to be appointed the Director of Public Information for the Government of Bengal. The Muslims of India joined together under the leadership of Mohammed Ali Jinnah and began to press their demands for an independent state of Pakistan. Altaf Husain was a man of strong principles. With a missionary zeal he worked for the realization of the dream of an independent Muslim state of Pakistan. The new nation was born on 14 August 1947, but Pakistan lost its founding father only a year after, and in October 1951, Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister and the most trusted friend and colleague of Jinnah, was assassinated.
