He was originally from Pharwala, a historical town of Gakkhar clan in the Rawalpindi District of the Potohar region in northern Punjab.
[1] Raja Hassan Akhtar was fluent in English, Urdu, Persian, Punjabi and Pothwari; he could also communicate in Arabic.
For a long time Sir Muhammad Iqbal wanted a journal to propagate his ideas and the aims and objective of Muslim league.
Sir Muhammad Iqbal was the first patron of the historical, political, religious, cultural journal of Muslims of British India and Pakistan, "Tuloo-e-Islam".
Muslim scholars like Maulana Aslam Jairajpuri, Ghulam Ahmed Pervez, Dr. Zakir Hussain Khan, Syed Naseer Ahmed, Maulvi Ghulam Yezdani, Ragheb Ahsan, Sheikh Suraj ul Haq, Rafee ud din Peer, Prof. fazal ud din Qureshi, Agha Muhammad Safdar, Asad Multani, Dr. Tasadaq Hussain, Prof. Yusuf Saleem Chisti contributed articles in this journal.