Pakistan marks 81 years since independence resolution

1940 resolution called for all Indian states where Muslims were in majority to be grouped into an ‘independent state’.

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan is celebrating 81 years since the signing of the Lahore Resolution in 1940, a historic document that marked the first time the Indian subcontinent’s Muslim political leadership committed to the formation of independent Muslim states. Signed in the city of Lahore in what was then British-ruled India, the resolution called for all “areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority” to be grouped into “Independent States”. The resolution was signed by the leadership of the All India Muslim League (AIML), including party chief Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the man widely revered as the founder of Pakistan.