PAKISTAN RESOLUTION DAY

23 March- PAKISTAN RESOLUTION DAY

23rd March of 1940 a milestone in the struggle of all the Progenitors and great leaders to achieve an independent country, Pakistan. The Lahore Resolution or Qarardad-e-Lahore, popularly known as the Pakistan Resolution or Qarardad-e-Pakistan, was presented by A. K. Fazlul Huq and was the formal political statement adopted by the Muslim League at the occasion of its three-day general session on 22–24 March 1940 that called for greater Muslim autonomy in British India, held at Manto Park (now Iqbal Park), Lahore. The Lahore Resolution had been largely interpreted as the demand for a separate Muslim state.

Mr. Sikandar Hayat Khan, the then Chief Minister of the Punjab, drafted the original Lahore Resolution. The Resolution was placed before the Subject Committee of the All India Muslim League for discussion and amendments. The Resolution text unanimously rejected the concept of a United India on the grounds of growing inter-communal violence and recommended the creation of an independent Muslim state.

Mohammad Ali Jinnah officially known and revered in Pakistan as Quaid-i-Azam, a 20th century great politician and statesman, who is also regarded as the founder of Pakistan. In these sessions held at Lahore he propelled the Two-Nation Theory and exhaustively focused his address on the reasons for the demand for separate Muslim homeland. According to historians this was the moment when Jinnah, the former ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity, totally transformed himself into Pakistan's great leader.

To articulate the fortitude of the people in those times in few words is far beyond my inadequate writing competence and I could not dare to embark upon enunciating the integrity of those spirits. Nevertheless, in all my humbleness the Two-Nation Theory as I understood with my meager intellect was presented keeping in view the poor living conditions and paucity of opportunities available to Muslims. In the times of British Raj in India, Hindus being the majority of the population and Muslims although being a major minority were not given equal opportunities to health, education, employment, standard of living, and foremost the security of life for Muslims was negligible.
All I could say is, we as a nation shall always be in deference and owe a tremendous debt to hundreds and thousands of people who lost their lives, their loved ones to bestow us with the gift of our own country; a land where we could live and breathe with freedom and dignity.

With love and million prayers for the peace & prosperity of all.....

Sonya. (Day 51)