PAKISTAN RESOLUTION 1940

Dr. Saleem Raza Qureshi, PhD

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• When Muslims saw that hindus and British
government is not in their fovour.
• They called annual session of Muslim league was
held on 22nd, 23rd and 24th March 1940 under
the chairmanship of Quaid-e-Azam at Lahore in
Minto Park (Iqbal Park). Annual report was
presented by Mr. Liaquat Ali.
• Then Maulvi Fazul-Haque, Chief Minister of
Bengal moved the “Lahore Resolution” commonly
known as Pakistan Resolution.
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• The resolution was seconded by Chaudhry
Khaliq-u-Zaman. Maulana ZafarAli, Sardar
Aurangzeb Khan, Sir Abdullah Haroon,
Qazi Muhammad Issa, I.I. Chundrigar and
others supported the resolution.
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• The resolution declared: “No constitution plan
would be workable in this country or acceptable
to Muslims unless it is designed on the following
basic principles, viz, that geographically
contiguous units are demarcated into regions
which should be so constituted with such
territorial adjustment as may necessary,
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• that the areas in which Muslims are numerically in
majority as in the North Western and eastern
zones of India, should be grouped to constitute
independent states in which the constituent units
shall be autonomous and sovereign adequate,
effective and mandatory safeguards should be
specifically provided in the constitution for
minorities for the protection of their religion,
cultural, economic, political administrative and
other rights.”
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• The resolution clearly mentioned that the
demarcation of the region should be made in
such a way that Muslim majority area be
governed independently by Muslims. The
constitution should also provide protection of
religion, culture, economic and other rights of
minorities living in those regions. Congress and
Hindus started to vomit poison against this
resolution. A wave of hate and enmity started
against Muslims throughout India. Hindus were
against the partition of India. They wanted to
keep Muslims their sub-ordinates.
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• But after the Pakistan Resolution the Muslims of
India wiped out the proposal of alliance with
Hindu community and moved on to get
independent state of Pakistan which they
achieved in 1947.