That's why you should celebrate 16th December as your Independence day instead of 14th August.16th December, 1971 was the date when current,original Pakistan was borned. This is your real independence day.
Let us get this thing clear once and for all in the light of recorded history. What was the original blueprint for Pakistan?
Was there any blueprint other than what Allama Iqbal in his Presidential address at the Allahabad session presented as the ‘TWO Nation Theory’? I have not come across any. This is what he said.
"Personally, I would go farther than the demands embodied in it. I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India."
There is no doubt that initial proposal of a semi-independent Muslim State did not include East Pakistan.
We should also not forget that what we call Pakistan resolution of 1940, did not mention the name “Pakistan”.
The Resolution
On March 23, A.K. Fazul Haq, the Chief Minister of Bengal, moved the historical Lahore Resolution. The Resolution consisted of five paragraphs and each paragraph was only one sentence long. Although clumsily worded, it delivered a clear message. The resolution declared:
“While approving and endorsing the action taken by the Council and the Working Committee of the All-India Muslim League, as indicated in their resolutions dated the 27th of August, 17th and 18th of September and 22nd of October, 1939, and 3rd of February 1940, on the constitutional issue, this session of the All-India Muslim League emphatically reiterates that the scheme of Federation embodied in the Government of India Act, 1935 is totally unsuited to, and unworkable in the peculiar conditions of this country and is altogether unacceptable to Muslim India.
It further records its emphatic view that while the declaration dated the 18th of October, 1939, made by the Viceroy on behalf of His Majesty’s Government is reassuring in so far as it declares that the policy and plan on which the Government of India Act, 1935 is based will be reconsidered in consultation with the various parties, interests and communities in India, Muslim India will not be satisfied unless the whole constitutional plan is reconsidered de novo and that no revised plan would be acceptable to the Muslims unless it is framed with their approval and consent.
Resolved that it is the considered view of this session of the All-India Muslim League that no constitutional plan would be workable in this country or acceptable to Muslims unless it is designed on the following basic principle, namely, that geographically 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 a 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.
That adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards should be specifically provided in the constitution for minorities in these units and in these regions for the protection of their religious, cultural, economic, political, administrative and other rights and interests in consultation with them; and in other parts of India where Mussalmans are in a minority, adequate, effective and mandatory safeguard shall be specially provided in the constitution for them and other minorities for the protection of their religious, cultural, economic, political, administrative and other rights and interests in consultation with them.
This session further authorizes the Working Committee to frame a scheme of constitution in accordance with these basic principles, providing for the assumption finally by the respective regions of all powers such as defence, external affairs, communications, customs and such other matters as may be necessary”.
Besides many others, the Resolution was seconded by Chaudhary Khaliquzzam from UP, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan from Punjab, Sardar Aurangzeb from the N. W. F. P, Sir Abdullah Haroon from Sindh, and Qazi Muhammad Esa from Baluchistan. Those who seconded the resolution, in their speeches declared the occasion as a historic one. The Resolution was eventually passed on the last day of the moot, i.e. March 24.
https://historypak.com/lahore-resolution-1940/
The resolution established the basis for a separate homeland for the Muslims of British India. The passing of the resolution also transformed the Muslim minority in British India into a nation with its cultural and political and religious features distinct from rest of the Indian communities.
Clearly, the Lahore Resolution did not use the name “Pakistan” in the text and it did not link up the demand with Islam, but it included both the Eastern & the Western Muslims.
When I took the Matric Exam in 1956, it was still called “Qarardade- Lahore” or Lahore Resolution in the textbooks. However since this resolution set the basis of an independent homeland for Muslims, its popular name became Pakistan Resolution.
Therefore even though the proposal as presented by Allama Iqbal did not include East Pakistan; there is little doubt that without the support of Bengali Muslims partition of British India would not have been possible. The true date of creation of present Pakistan, as well as Bangla Desh, is 14th August 1947, however, if Bangla Deshis select another date, it is their privilege.
For the record, while Choudhry Rahmat Ali was a leading figure for the name of Pakistan, he had lived most of his adult life in the UK and had taken no part in the independence movement.
He had been voicing his dissatisfaction with the creation of Pakistan ever since his arrival on April 6, 1948. Mainly because he was unhappy over a lesser Pakistan than the one he had conceived in his 1933 pamphlet.
Understand that after he used abusive language against the Quaid; Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan ordered him to leave the country. He moved back to the UK where he died in February in Feb 1951.
