INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mohammad Iqbal is credited with the idea of Pakistan. He believed that Muslims are a distinct nation and thus deserve political independence from other regions and communities of India. He devised the idea of a north-western Muslim province when he became convinced that Muslims faced extinction in India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Option A Solution: The first definite and forceful expression of the concept of a separate homeland for the Muslims came from (or the Catcher of the idea of Pakistan was) Sir Mohammad Iqbal.

Detailed explanation-3: -Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the first person to come up with the idea of Pakistan.

Detailed explanation-4: -Iqbal in his famous Allahabad address presented the idea of Pakistan as a separate homeland for the Muslims as a permanent solution to Hindu-Muslim communal tensions. The same idea was later made vibrant in Lahore Resolution in 1940. This demand was given a legal format on the basis of two-nation theory.