23rd March not only as Pakistan Day
BADARUDDIN KALHORO BUREAU CHIEF SINDH LAHORE INTERNATIONAL LONDON
Very few individuals have significantly changed the course of history. There are still few modifications to the world map. Hardly anyone can be recognized as the creator of a nation. Muhammad Ali Jinnah did all three. Hailed as a “great leader” (Quaid-e-Azam) of Pakistan, Jinnah de facto promoted that country to statehood through the force of his indomitable will.
The Lahore Resolution commonly known as the Pakistan Resolution was an official political declaration adopted by the Muslim League at its three-day joint session on 2224 March 1940, calling for greater autonomy of Muslims in British India. This is widely understood as the need for a separate Muslim country, Pakistan. The resolution was presented by A. K. Fazlul Huq.
March 22, 1940 to March 24, 1940, the All India Muslim League held its annual session at Minto Park, Lahore. This session turned out to be history. The session took place from 22 March to 24 March 1940, at Manto Park (now Iqbal Park), Lahore. Welcome speech delivered by Nawab Sir Shah Nawaz Mamdot. In his speech, Jinnah recounted the contemporary situation, emphasizing that India’s problem is no longer cross-community, but clearly international. He criticized Congress and Muslim nationalists, and espoused the two-state theory and the reasons for the need for separate Muslim homelands. According to Stanley Wolpert, this was the moment when Jinnah, the former Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity, completely made himself the great leader of Pakistan.
Quaid e azan said that,
“Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophy, social and literary customs. They are not detained nor banned and, really, they belong Two different civilizations are mainly based on ideas and designs. Conflict. Their concepts of life and life are different. It is clear that Hindus and Muslims have inspiration Different historical sources. They have different heroes, different heroes and different stages. Often, one person’s hero is the other’s enemy, and likewise, their victories and defeats overlap. To bring together two such nations under one state, one in the minority and the other in the majority, must lead to growing discontent and ultimately the destruction of any fabric that may be built for the government of ‘such a country’.
The background to the Pakistan Resolution is the introduction of provincial autonomy on the subcontinent in 1937 through the Government of India Act of 1935. Elections in 1937 brought the Congress a majority in six provinces, in which the governments were formed. This led to political, social, economic and cultural oppression of Muslims in the Congress-ruled provinces. Congress rejected the Muslim League’s offer to form coalition ministries. employment and education policies and opportunities.Congressional ministries instituted the Wardha education program aimed at de-Muslimizing Muslim youth and children. over the departments of Congress that showed that a ‘Raj Congress’ had been established. He was betrayed by the behavior and demeanor of the congressmen. Many of them behaved as if they were a ruling caste, as if they were the owners of the land.”
Muslims, who are in the minority in the independent entities and areas, must be consulted and their interests protected by the constitution. Since the current constitution does not protect the interests of Muslims, it is not at all acceptable to Indian Muslims. Muslims in India cannot accept the British government’s proposed amendments to the current constitution until the entire constitutional plan is revised from the ground up.
Doing the common will for the realization of Pakistan was a duty that the Muslim League championed from the moment it was founded. This goal was achieved after 7 years in the form of the Lahore Resolution.This resolution radically changed the direction of South Asian politics. The adoption of the Pakistan Resolution shattered Indian dreams of a consolidated (Akhand) Bharat. The Indians’ concern shook the rubble from which the edifice of Pakistan could be constructed. The resolution draws attention to the following important points of the text.
First, the content uses the phrase “independent states” instead of “independent state”. The presence of “s” with the word state in the original text becomes significant in the context of East Pakistan’s 1971 secession to Bangladesh. It has been argued that the original intent was to form many individual states in the areas where Muslims are in the majority rather than a single state for the Muslims of India.The fact that the resolution was tabled by a Bengali nationalist, FazalulHaq, reinforces the argument that according to the resolution, East Pakistan should never be part of Pakistan.