194022–24 March 1940 · Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore

Lahore Resolution and the call for Pakistan

The white Minar-e-Pakistan tower in Lahore's Greater Iqbal Park, where the Lahore Resolution was passed — Photo: Khan.gesta. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At an All-India Muslim League session in Lahore's Minto Park, presided over by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, delegates resolved that the Muslim-majority regions of north-west and east India should form independent states. Soon called the Pakistan Resolution, it became the League's central demand and led to partition in 1947. The Minar-e-Pakistan, completed in 1968, stands on the spot.

Political History
Colonial & Imperial History
Lahore, Pakistan

Sites

Site 1: Minar-e-Pakistan, Greater Iqbal ParkTall concrete and marble tower on the session site, with the resolution's text inscribed.Map ↗
Site 2: Tomb of Allama IqbalTomb of the poet whose 1930 address first proposed a Muslim state in the north-west.Map ↗