23rd March , Pakistan Resolution Day 2017 was observed this year with high spirits and emotions. As Pakistan faces threats from enemies and at the same time trying very hard to progress in various fields, the Pakistani's are well united then ever before.
To salute the ocassion celebrations were carried out in different parts of the country but as the resolution was presented back on 23rd March, 1940 in Lahore at Minar e Pakistan, the place holds a special place in our history.
The day is celebrated in the memory to commemorate the event when the Muslim League adopted the Pakistan resolution at the Minar-e-Pakistan (lit. Pakistan Tower) that called for establishing an independent federation comprising provinces with Muslim majority located in north-western and north-eastern region of British controlled territories in India (excluding autonomous princely States) on 23 March 1940. This is also considered as the foundation stone òf Pakistan. the foundation stone , the resolution quoted as
No constitutional plan would be workable or acceptable to the Muslims unless geographical contiguous units are demarcated into regions which should be so constituted with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary. That the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in majority as in the North-Western and Eastern zones of India should be grouped to constitute independent states in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign.
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