The Lahore Resolution, also called Pakistan Resolution, was written and prepared by Muhammad Zafarullah Khan and was presented by A. K. Fazlul Huq, the Prime Minister of Bengal, was a formal political statement adopted by the All-India Muslim League on the occasion of its three-day general session in Lahore on 22–24 March 1940. The resolution called for independent states as seen by the statement:That geographically contiguous units are demarcated regions which should be constituted, with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary that the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in the North Western and Eastern Zones of (British) India should be grouped to constitute ‘independent states’ in which the constituent units should be autonomous and sovereign.
Muslim leaders from across British India at the All-India Muslim League Working Committee session in Lahore
A. K. Fazlul Huq presented the historical Lahore resolution in 1940.
The Minar-e-Pakistan, where the Lahore Resolution was passed.
Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq, popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla, was a Bengali lawyer and politician who presented the Lahore Resolution which had the objective of creating an independent Pakistan. He also served as the first and longest Prime Minister of Bengal during the British Raj.
A. K. Fazlul Huq
Fazlul Huq's birthplace, the Saturia Mia Bari, in Rajapur, Jhalokati District.
The Calcutta High Court, where Fazlul Huq practised law for over 40 years
Fazlul Huq joined the All India Muhammadan Education Conference in Dhaka in 1906, which founded the All India Muslim League.