Indelible resolve for Pakistan's honour endures.

• Author: Quddus, Sadaf

Byline: SADAF QUDDUS

With a codicil of over a hundred years of endeavors, Pakistan is not only a country, but quite a story of unpliable spirits and hard work, and 23rd March marks the first chapter of its realization: the first ever Pakistan Day. Nothing less of a miracle, the day engraved in stone the charter for the inviolable rights of a minority that was being treated as inferiors.

Today, if we have the perk of marking the day as a public holiday, it is because of the people who never thought rest was an option. Led by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the women and men were etched wholly into the national memory for their fortitude. Therefore, monumentalizing the accomplishments of March 23, 1940, there presented a display of strength exemplifying the iron core of Pakistan, and celebrating the achievements of the country, thereon.

The 23rd of March 1940 beholds an exceptional place in the hearts of Pakistanis for it was the day when the notion of an unbound Muslim homeland was proposed through a unanimous accord as a resolution. The passing of the Lahore Resolution put down the way forward for the consciousness of an exclusive Muslim homeland. Quaid knew that if the Muslims proceeded to inhabit India, which was under substantial control of the Hindu majority's influence, they would be racked with suffering due to hefty-handed religious prejudices in all walks of life. Therefore, he demanded an independent state for the Muslims where he knew that they would be free from any sort of discrimination, segregation, and oppression.

This was a decision that altered the map of the subcontinent. The Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Allahabad Address of 1930 also put forward the idea of a separate Muslim homeland with a such wholesomeness that it persuaded every single Muslim and the cause attained an impulse, so much that now we are fortunate enough to live free of autocracy, despotism and detriment of any kind, of be the caste, creed, heritage or faith.

The history behind

The Muslim League filed the events that etched the Hindu-Muslim conflicts, as well as the historical resolution that resulted in the formation of Pakistan as a South Asian nation-state. The resolution called for the Muslim majority in British India's northwest and east to become an independent sovereign state. The resolution stated: "No constitutional plan would be workable or acceptable to the Muslims unless geographical contiguous units are demarcated into regions which should be so...