PM, President say Iqbal's vision continues to serve as 'guiding beacon' for Pakistan

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday paid tribute to Allama Muhammad Iqbal — the poet of the East — on his 149th birth anniversary, stressing that the poet’s message of unity and peaceful coexistence continued to serve as a “guiding beacon” for the country. Born in Sialkot in 1877, Iqbal was a distinguished poet, a scholar, a gifted philosopher and Pakistan’s…