<P> The Lahore Resolution (Urdu: قرارداد لاہور ‎ ‎, Karardad - e-Lahore; Bengali: লাহোর প্রস্তাব, Lahor Prostab), written by Muhammad Zafarullah Khan and others and 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: </P> <P> That geographically contiguous units are demarcated into 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 . </P> <P> Although the name "Pakistan" had been proposed by Choudhary Rahmat Ali in his Pakistan Declaration, it was not until after the resolution that it began to be widely used . </P> <P> According to Stanley Wolpert, this was the moment when Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the former ambassador of Hindu - Muslim unity, totally transformed himself into Pakistan's great leader . </P>

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