<P> As the leaders of the Indian Congress were jailed and restrained, the Round - table conference was held, but these achieved little, since Gandhi and the League were unable to reach a compromise . Witnessing the events in the Round - table conference, Jinnah had despaired of politics and particularly of getting mainstream parties like the Congress to be sensitive to minority priorities . During this time in 1930, notable writer and poet, Muhammad Iqbal called for a separate and autonomous nation - state, who in his presidential address to the 1930 convention of the Muslim League said that he felt that a separate Muslim state was essential in an otherwise Hindu - dominated South Asia . </P> <P> The name of the nation - state was coined by the Cambridge University's political science student and Muslim nationalist Rahmat Ali, and was published on 28 January 1933 in the pamphlet Now or Never . After coining the name of the nation - state, Ali noticed that there is an acronym formed from the names of the "homelands" of Muslims in northwest India: </P> <Ul> <Li> "P" for Punjab </Li> <Li> "A" for Afghania (now known as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) </Li> <Li> "K" for Kashmir </Li> <Li> "S" for Sindh </Li> <Li> "Tan" for Balochistan; thus forming "Pakstan". </Li> </Ul> <Li> "P" for Punjab </Li>

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