The Lahore Resolution (Urdu=Qarardad-e-Lahore قرارداد لاھور), commonly known as the Pakistan Resolution (Urdu=قرارداد پاکستان Qarardad-e-Pakistan)[1] was a political resolution, or statement drafted between 22nd to 24th March 1940, by the 25-member Working Committee of the All-India Muslim League, and then formally adopted by the Muslim League membership at its general session on 23 March 1940, held at Lahore.

2. Pakistan Resolution
23 March 1940

3.  Group Memebers:
 Qamber Hameed 2405-FET/BSEE/F14
 Abdul Haseeb 2398-FET/BSEE/F14

4. Contents
Objectives
Main leaders of the Muslim LeagueAnnual Session
Reasons
Main contents of resolution
Significant moments
Importance of Lahore Resolution
Reaction on Lahore resolution
Conclusion

5. 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

6. Annual session of Muslim league23
March1940
Liqat Ali Khan Presented the
annual report of Muslim League
Resolution moved by Molvifazal
–Ul- Haq
by Ch.Resolution seconded
khaliquzaman

7. Session presided by Quaid i Azam
From different regions
The Resolution was seconded by Maulana Zafar Ali
Khan from Punjab,
SardarAurangzeb from the NWFP.
Sir Abdullah Haroon from Sindh,and
Qazi Esa from Baluchistan, along with many other

8. Reasons for passing Pakistan Resolution
 Two nation theory ( Sir SyedAhmed khan )
 Muslim quest (talash) 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.

9. Cont…
 The Muslims’ disappointment from the Congress
leadership decided to open a new phase of history.
 Quaid-i-Azam’s 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

10. Significant Moments of Resolution

11. Resolution
They decidedthattheFederalsystem under Government ofIndia Act,
1935 was not acceptablefor theMuslims.
No revised constitutionalplanwould beacceptableunless itwasframed
with their approvaland contact.
Adjacentunitswhere Muslims areinamajority,asinNorthwest and
wheretheEast,shouldbeconstitutedasindependentstatesandconstitution
stateswillbeautonomous.
Protectionofminoritywouldbegivenpriority.

13. Importance of Resolution
 The passing of the resolution was ahuge step for the Muslim League.
 The Pakistan Resolution offered afair 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 finallygot 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 allthe Muslims together to demand for aseparatehomeland.

14. Reactions on Lahore resolution
i.
iii.
1. The Hindu press published news that the Muslim league had a dangerous
design to disintegrate the country bythe creation of Pakistan.
2. Congress, which was dreaming to establish ‘Hindu Raj’ had manipulated
Lahore resolution as ;
ML creatingproblems in the wayof independence and wanted to
retain the British predominance over the subcontinent.
ii. Raised slogan thatpeople of India wanted to form one United
Nation
Congress hostility grew towards Muslim league.

15. 1. Gandhi instigate prejudice against partition by calling it
the ‘vivisection of motherland’ ‘cutting up a baby into
two halves’
2. The British’s 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.

16. 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 Jinnahas 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”

17. 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.