Pakistan Resolution

23 March 1940

PRESENTED BY:;
MUZZAMIL AHMED

Objectives
To understand the circumstances in which the
Pakistan Resolution was moved and passed.
To study the main content of the resolution
To study the Reaction on Lahore resolution

Annual session of Muslim league 23

March1940
Liqat Ali Khan
annual report
League

Presented the
of
Muslim

Resolution moved by Molvi

fazal Ul- Haq

Resolution seconded by Ch.

khaliquzaman

Session presided by Quaid i Azam

From Different Regions
The Resolution Was Seconded By Maulana Zafar Ali Khan From Punjab,
Sardar Aurangzeb From The NWFP.
Sir 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 !