Lahore Resolution

Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore, where the Pakistan Resolution was passed

The Lahore Resolution (Urdu=Qarardad-e-Lahore ??????? ?????), commonly known as the
Pakistan Resolution (Urdu=??????? ??????? Qarardad-e-Pakistan)[1] was a political
resolution, or statement drafted between 22nd to 24th March 1940, by the 25-member
Working Committee of the All-India Muslim League, and then formally adopted by the
Muslim League membership at its general session on 23 March 1940, held at Lahore.
This resolution asked for greater Muslim autonomy of Muslim majority states such as
Punjab Bengal Sindh, NWFP within British India. However, later on most people
thought of this as a call for a separate Muslim state, Pakistan.[2] The resolution
was presented at Minto Park (now renamed 'Iqbal Park'), in Lahore, by Maulvi A.K.
Fazlul Huq on the instructions of the Working Committee.[3]

In fact, from the declaration made in this resolution in 1940 onwards, the goals of
the Muslim League became increasingly fixed upon achieving an independent nation-
state.

Today, the resolution's importance is remembered in Pakistan, by the Minar-e-

Pakistan structure that stands in the Greater Iqbal Park, Lahore.

Committee

The All-India Muslim League Working Committee responsible for the creation of the
nation of Pakistan.
The following is the full list of the 25 original, formally designated members of
the Special Working Committee of the All India Muslim League, 1940, which met
between 21 and 24 March 1940,[4] and which largely drafted the Lahore Resolution.
[5]

Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan
Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan
Sir Shahnawaz Khan Mamdot
Amir Ahmed Khan Raja Sahib of Mahmudabad
Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq
Sir Abdullah Haroon
Al-Hajj Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin
Amjadi Bano Begum
Molana Muhammad Akram Khan
Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman
Nawab Muhammad Ismail Khan
Sir Currimbhoy Ebrahim
Ali Muhammad Khan Dehlvi
Qazi Muhammad Isa
Sardar Aurangzeb Khan
Abdul Mateen Chauhdry
Ashiq Mohamed Warsi
Haji Abdus Sattar Essak Saith
S.M. Sharif
Syed Abdul Rauf Shah
Mohammad Latif ur Rahman
Abdul Rehman Siddiqui
Malik Barkat Ali
Sadullah Khan Umarzai
Syed Alamdar Hussain Gilani