Pakistan Resolution Day – 23 March 1940
Administrator on March 23rd, 2010
23rd March holds a significant place in the history of Pakistan. 70 years ago, on 23 March 1940 in Lahore Minto Park (now called Iqbal Park), the founding fathers passed the momentous Pakistan Resolution (Qarardad i Pakistan), which gave birth to the idea of an independent state nation.
On 23rd March 2010, to celebrate the day, Imam of Makkah Mosque, Qari Asim attended the event held at Bradford Consulate to celebrate the Pakistan Resolution Day (Youm Qarardad-i-Pakistan). Qari Asim attended the event with Asghar Khan, Labour Candidate for Leeds Headingley Ward, and Asif Qureshi, Leeds representative of Urdu Newspaper Daily Ausaf.
Below, in the photo Imam Qari Asim is standing with Mr. Tariq Iqbal Soomro, Consul General, and Asghar Khan.
Quaid-i-Azam (the Great Leader) Muhammad Ali Jinnah, as a leader of the Muslim League in 1940, demanded the formation of an independent Pakistan and after 7 years of peaceful struggle, on 14 August 1947, Pakistan was born. Independence resulted in communal riots across India and Pakistan and millions of Muslims were uprooted from their homes as they moved from India to Pakistan and millions were martyred and injured.
Formation of Pakistan was the dream of Dr Allama Muhammad Iqbal, who was a strong proponent of the political and spiritual revival of Islamic civilisation across the world, but specifically in South Asia; a series of famous lectures he delivered to this effect are published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam.
Allama Muhammad Iqbal asked Quaid-e-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah to lead the Muslims of India to realizing a dream for an independent Islamic state.
As Quaid-e-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah said:-
“We are a nation, with our distinctive culture and civilisation, names and nomenclature, sense of values and proportion, legal laws and moral code, customs and calendar, history and tradition, aptitude and ambition; in short we have our own distinctive outlook on life and of life. By all canons of international law, we are a nation.”
It is an irony that a country which was created in the name of ideology failed to achieve the destiny laid down by its founders, who with vigorous struggle and spirit secured this independent state of Pakistan for their future generation.
May Pakistan long live and Allah grant it protection from internal and external sources. May Allah allow it to prosper as a great nation and enable it to achive the dreams of its founder and those who laid down their lives for its formation (Ameen).
March 25th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
Jeeway Jeeway Pakistan!
March 23rd, 2011 at 1:54 pm
WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY AND WE ALL SLUTE THOSE PEOPLE WHO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY.