The name of the country was coined in 1933 by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who published it in a pamphlet ''Now or Never'', using it as an acronym ("thirty million Muslim brethren who live in PAKISTAN"), and referring to the names of the five northern regions of the British Raj: ''P''unjab, ''A''fghania, ''K''ashm''i''r, ''S''indh, and Baluchis''tan''.