Dawn: It favoured greater autonomy to the provinces but it turned in favour of a strong and assertive centre in the post-independence period.
The resolution for the establishment of a separate homeland for the Muslims of British India passed in the annual session of the All India Muslim League held in Lahore on 22-24 March 1940 is a landmark document of Pakistan’s history.
The passing of the resolution marked the transformation of the Muslim minority in British India into a nation with its distinguishing socio-cultural and political features, a sense of history and shared aspirations for the future within a territory.
The Lahore Resolution, popularly described as the Pakistan Resolution, employs modern political discourse for putting forward its demand rather than using a religious idiom for creating a religious-Islamic state for protection of Islam from the onslaught of other religions of India.
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73 years after passing the resolution we are still unable to interprete it and are still trying hard to give its credit to some and discredit others. Read Dr Safdar Mahmood’s column in today’s Jang; who is doing his best to disassociate Sir Zafarullah Khan from Pakistan Resolution. What a pity.