Pakistan Resolution

23 March 1940

Contents
Objectives
Main

leaders of the Muslim League Annual Session

Reasons
Main

contents of resolution

Significant

moments

Importance
Reaction

of Lahore Resolution

on Lahore resolution

Conclusion

Annual session of Muslim league 23

March1940
Liquat Ali Khan Presented
the annual report of
Muslim League
Resolution
moved
Molvi fazal Ul- Haq

by

Resolution seconded
Ch. khaliquzaman

by

SESSION PRESIDED BY QUAID I AZAM

From different regions

The

Resolution was seconded by Maulana Zafar Ali

Khan from Punjab,

Sardar
Sir

Aurangzeb from the NWFP.

Abdullah Haroon from Sindh, and

Qazi

Esa from Baluchistan, along with many other

Reasons for passing Pakistan Resolution

Two nation theory ( Sir Syed Ahmed khan )

Muslim quest for political, economic and cultural safeguard

Allam Iqbal and Chaduhary Rehmat Ali :The idea of separate homeland

The experience of Congress Rule (1937-1939) compelled the Muslims

to launch the movement for separate homeland.

The Muslims disappointment from the Congress leadership decided to

open a new phase of history.

Quaid-i-Azams article in Time and Tide concluded that Muslims are a

nation.

No Constitution can be enforced by ignoring Muslims. His

comments on March 13, 1940 are remarkable: If some satisfactory

settlement cannot be found for Muslims in united India, the Muslim will
have to demand for division of the country.

Significant Moments of Resolution

Resolution
They

decided that the Federal system under Government of

India Act, 1935 was not acceptable for the Muslims.

No

revised constitutional plan would be acceptable unless it

was framed with their approval and consent.

Adjacent

units where Muslims are in a majority, as in

Northwest and East, should be constituted as Independent

States where the constituent units will be autonomous and
sovereign.
Protection

of minorities would be given priority

Importance of Resolution

The passing of the resolution was a huge step for the Muslim League.

The Pakistan Resolution offered a fair and attractive solution to the

Problem, the Muslims had grappled with constant strain of being refer to
second-class status.

Had Given the enthusiasm to Muslims

This resolution was passed unanimously and soon became known as

Pakistan Resolution.

The Muslims of subcontinent had finally got their rallying call.

The years of oppression from British and Hindus were to be put behind
them and it was ML which was undisputed leader of Pakistan Movement.

It joined all the Muslims together to demand for a separate homeland.

Reaction on Lahore resolution

1.

The Hindu press published news that the Muslim league

had a dangerous design to disintegrate the country by the
creation of Pakistan.

2.

Congress, which was dreaming to establish Hindu Raj had

manipulated Lahore resolution as ;

i.

ML creating problems in the way of independence and

wanted to retain the British predominance over the
subcontinent.

ii.

Raised slogan that people of India wanted to form one

United Nation

iii.

Congress hostility grew towards Muslim league.

1.

Gandhi instigate prejudice against partition by calling

it the vivisection of motherland cutting up a baby
into two halves (Anwar.M,PakistanStudies,volume1,whiterose
publisher Lahore,pg 99)

2.

The Britishs did not oppose it openly because it was

based on Two Nation Theory and British had
accepted Muslims a separate nation on various
occasions .

3.

World war II had put the Britain in a very critical

situation. She did not want to invite trouble by openly
opposing the cause of Muslim League.

Conclusion
The

British had been compelled to recognize the

Muslim League as the sole representative of the

Muslims of India by 1940 and Quaid-i-Azam
Mohammad Ali Jinnah as its undisputed leader.
The

resolution passed in Lahore on March 23,

created a scare in the minds of the Congress and

the Hindus. They could see that the Muslim League
had now openly advocated the division of India into
"Independent States

 He,

Quaid knew that without a well-defined goal

that could be understood even by the simplest

Muslim, there could be no real awakening of the
Muslims. The Pakistan Resolution gave them a
legible, objective and reachable goal: Pakistan.

Thank you !