The IRP (Islamic Republic of
Pakistan) is greatest Islamic Country in the whole world. Who wants peace in
global village. In this article I want to discussed the Lahore resolution which
also known as the Pakistan Resolution 1940 I want to uncover the real-ity and
main aspect of this resolution.
The people of Pakistan celebrate the 23rd of March, every year, with impressive
zeal and enthusiasm, to memorialize the most outstanding achievement of
sub-continent Muslims who passed the historic Pakistan Resolution on this day at
Minto Park, Lahore in 1940.
The Lahore Pakistan Resolution also known as Karar Dad-e-Pakistan was indeed a
landmark in the history for the Muslims of the sub-continent. Before this, the
Muslims of sub-continent had no goal and no future in view and Muslim politics
remained in the hands of the individuals with conflicting interests and
inclinations. As soon as Lahore Resolution was passed by the Muslim League, the
Hindu press started criticizing the Muslim League and declared this resolution
as Pakistan Resolution. The personality of Moham-mad Ali Jinnah was also
criticized by the Hindus and their promi-nent leaders. Mohammad Ali Jinnah got
nationwide popularity after Lahore Resolution, because the Muslims of India had
a lot of expectations from him and he was the only source of inspiration for the
Muslims.
The All India Muslim League played a vital role in the crea-tion of Pakistan in
the year 1940. Muslim league had become a stronger political party for the
Muslims of Indo-Pak sub-continent, under which the Muslims were struggling for a
separate homeland for them. The great leader of the Muslims, Mohammad Ali Jinnah
by the time had become the lining symbol of Muslim unity and Muslim politics and
the Muslims had so completely centred on him that he had become almost an
institution in himself.
In the words of Quaid-i-Azam: “Hindus and the Muslims be-long to two different
religions, philosophies, social customs and li-terature and religion. They
neither inter-marry nor inter-dine and, indeed, they belong to two different
civilizations that are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions. Their
concepts on life and of life are much different. It is quite clear that Hindus
and Muslims derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They
have different epics, different heroes and different epi-sodes…”
The resolution which was passed at the session reads: “No consti-tutional plan
would be workable or acceptable to the Muslims un-less geographical contiguous
units are demarcated into regions which should be so constituted with such
territorial readjustments as may be necessary. That the areas in which the
Muslims are nu-merically 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”.
The Resolution turned down the concept of United India and recommended the
creation of an independent Muslim state consist-ing of Punjab, N. W. F. P (now
Khyber Pakhtonkhwa), Sindh and Balochistan in the northwest, and Bengal and
Assam in the north-east.
It further reads, “That adequate, effective and mandatory sa-feguards shall be
specifically provided in the constitution for mi-norities in the units and in
the regions for the protection of their re-ligious, cultural, economic,
political, administrative and other rights of the minorities, with their
consultation. Arrangements thus should be made for the security of Muslims where
they were in a minority”. Pakistan Zinda Abad….