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  Lahore
Lahore is the capital of the province of the Punjab.
The famous Lahore Resolution, which shaped the destinies of the millions of the Muslims of South Asia, was passed at Lahore in 1940.
Lahore is an important educational centre and is known as the City of Colleges with a large number of educational institutions.
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 ShaikhSiddiqui Lahore
The city of Lahore is located at latitude 31 ° 35´ N and longitude 74° 13´ E. The city occupies an area of over 2000 km² and is expanding.
Lahore is also identufied with Sanghala, mentioned by Arrian and Curtius, the classical writers, as the stronghold of the Kathaean or Khatri tribe.
Lahore came under Muslim rule in 713 CE when Umayyad Muslim Arab army led by Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Punjab, and the present Pakistan from Kashmir to the Arabian Sea.
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 Lahore travel guide - Wikitravel
Lahore was the capital of the Sikh-ruled state of Punjab until the British take-over in the late 19th century.
Lahore, "the city of gardens", was a cultural and intellectual centre during both the Moghul and British eras, and it's an atmosphere which still pervades today.
A town near Lahore was the birthplace of Guru Nanak, the 15th century founder of the Sikh religion, and Lahore was the capital from which Maharaja Ranjit Singh ruled his 19th century Sikh Empire.
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 Lahore Summary
Lahore is largely thought of as the cultural centre of Pakistan ever since its accession by the Mughal Empire since the 16th century CE.
Lahore played host to perhaps the most important session of the Muslim League political party in 1940, where the Lahore Resolution was passed.
Lahore city is bounded on the north and west by the Sheikhupura district, on the east by India and on the south Kasur district.
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 Lahore City Portal - Information portal for city of Lahore - Visit Lahore
Lahore Museum, which has the most and the finest Mughal artifacts in the world, is a place to start.
In the middle of Iqbal Park in Lahore stands Minar-e-Pakistan, a tall concrete minaret which was built as a tribute to the creation of Pakistan.
This is the exact place where in 1940, the Muslim League passed the famous Lahore Resolution, which demanded a separate homeland for the Muslims of India.
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 travel LAHORE tours.
Lahore is the Capital city of Punjab Province.
The Lahore Museum is the largest in the country and houses articles from all over the country.
The Lahore airport is only 15 minutes away from the main down town.
tours.hypermart.net /pakistan/lahore.htm   (754 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | Special Report: March 23, 1940: The Lahore Resolution
The Resolution declared: "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.
The Resolution repudiated the concept of United India and recommended the creation of an independent Muslim state consisting of Punjab, N. Sindh and Baluchistan in the northwest, and Bengal and Assam in the northeast.
It was on the basis of this resolution that in 1946 the Muslim League decided to go for one state for the Muslims, instead of two.
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 Welcome To www.Merapakistan.tk :: The Place Where u know About Pakistan
Thus the world's eyes were on Lahore on March 23, 1940, and the decisions to be taken in the Muslim League session were awaited with bated breath in the capitals of Commonwealth countries, the Muslim world, Asia and Europe.
The highlight of the March 23 session of the ML in Lahore was the stirring address of nearly two and a half hours of the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.
Although the name Pakistan was not mentioned in the Lahore Resolution that was adopted amid thunderous applause in the early hours of the morning, the concept of Pakistan was writ large in the sprit of the resolution.
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 Pakistan - MSN Encarta
The region of Punjab, then under the control of the Sikh kingdom of Lahore, was annexed in 1849 after British forces won the second of two wars against the Sikhs.
In 1940 Muslim League president Mohammed Ali Jinnah presided over the organization’s annual session, held that year at Lahore, in which the League made its first official demand for the partition of India.
During preindependence talks in 1946, the British government found that the stand of the Muslim League on separation and that of the Congress on the territorial unity of India were irreconcilable.
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 UrbanPK.com
Lahore is a major city of Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab.
Lahore is a very festive city, the people of Lahore celebrate many traditions throughout the year, with blending of mughal, western and latest trends.
It further seeks to enable Lahore to position itself to meet the challenges of the future and to seize opportunities in an effective, efficient, equitable and sustainable manner, the special efforts on challenges triggered by rapidly growing population, ever increasing demands, needs for institutional adjustments and forces of changes within and without.
www.urbanpk.com /pages/content/metro/lahore.php   (2732 words)

  
 History of Bangladesh
The Lahore Resolution demanded that geographically contiguous units "be demarcated into regions which should be constituted with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary so that the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority should be grouped to constitute "Independent States" in which the constitutional units be autonomous and sovereign".
The fervor for the Lahore Resolution sprang not merely from the disillusion of the Muslims with the Hindu leadership.
The vernacular Muslim elites in Bengal maintained that the Lahore Resolution was legally a charter for a Muslim dominated independent and sovereign Bengal.
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"The Lahore Resolution, later called Pakistan Resolution, is a political statement adopted by the All India Muslim League on 23 March 1940.
Sikandar Hayat Khan, the Chief Minister of the Punjab, drafted the original Lahore Resolution, which was placed before the Subject Committee of the All India Muslim League for discussion and amendments.
The resolution, radically amended by the subject committee, was moved in the general session by Shere-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq, the Chief Minister of Bengal, on 23 March and was supported by Choudhury Khaliquzzaman and other Muslim leaders.
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 Lahore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lahore is the one of the oldest cities of Pakistan, it dates back to 4,000 years ago when Hindu god Ram's two sons founded that city.
Lahore is a very old and traditional city with lots of Mughal architectures and different handicrafts.
Lahore is a good producer of fine Pakistani and Persian design carpets and blankets.
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 Lahore
Muslims of South Asia, was passed at Lahore in 1940.
The Minar-i-Pakistan is situated in the famous Iqbal Park ground as the symbol of the sacrifices and struggle of the Muslims of
Lahore there is the University of the Punjab, King Edward Medical College, University of Engineering and Technology, F. College, Islamia College, Kinnaird College and lot of other educational institutions spreading the light of knowledge throughout
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 The Muslim press and the independence movement -DAWN - The Review; December 30, 2006
The result was the Lahore Resolution of the All India Muslim League aiming at the establishment of independent sovereign states in the North-West and North-East of the subcontinent comprising Muslim majority areas.
After the Lahore Resolution was passed the Quaid-i-Azam sponsored the “Create a Muslim Press” campaign and collected funds for the purpose.
But when these two Hindu communal newspapers sarcastically mentioned that the Lahore Resolution was a resolution for the creation of Pakistan and the movement by the All India Muslim League was a movement for Pakistan; the Quaid-i-Azam accepted.
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 Sticky Story of the Week!
During the Mughal rule, the cities of Delhi (present-day India) and Lahore (present-day Pakistan) were made the capitals of the nothern Indian subcontinent.
The meeting was also aimed at analyzing the reasons that led to the defeat of the Muslim League in the general election of 1937 in the Muslim majority provinces.
That the areas where the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in the Northwestern 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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 SUKHDEV'S LETTER TO GANDHIJI
The Congress is bound by its Lahore resolution to carry on the struggle relentlessly till the Complete Independence is achieved.
In face of the resolution, the peace and compromise is but a temporary truce which only means a little rest to organise better forces on a larger scale for the next struggle.
In face of the Lahore resolution you have thought it expedient to call off the active movement for the present, but nevertheless that resolution stands.
www.punjabilok.com /misc/freedom/sukh_togandhi.htm   (986 words)

  
 The Partition of India
The main difference between the two Resolutions is that the latter part of my Resolution, which related to the Centre and coordination of the activities of the various units, was eliminated." He, however, continued to remain a Leaguer.
The Lahore resolution should therefore be seen as a bargaining counter, which had the merit of being acceptable (on the face of it) to the majority-province Muslims, and of being totally unacceptable to the Congress and in the last resort to the British also.
That Jinnah's adherence to the Resolution of March 23, 1940, with its tantalising last para, was tentative emerges clearly from a consistent record of concessions on his part.
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 SAPRA INDIA: Regional Issues: Pakistan Provincial Parties: September 17 Resolutions
The Muttahida Quami Movement demanded that a new liberal and democratic constitution based on the equality of nations be formulated according to the spirit of the 1940 Lahore Resolution to safeguard and strengthen Pakistan.
Another resolution said the right to govern will be through a parliament composed of equality of nations, and directly elected by the people and accountable to them.
Today’s Assembly, therefore, demands that according to the spirit of 1940 Lahore Resolution, a new liberal and democratic Constitution based on equality of nations be formulated for the people of Pakistan.
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 Khaksar Tehrik
The Pakistan Resolution (Lahore Resolution) and the Massacre of the Khaksars on March 19, 1940:
The Pakistan Resolution (Lahore Resolution) and the Khaksar resolution:
Unfortunately the historic Khaksar resolution is mostly unknown to the public because it does not appear in the supplements published by the media each year on March 23.
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 Ball in India's court - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Another irony is that the person who sponsored the resolution at Lahore on March 23, 1940, was a Bengali Muslim, Fazul Haq, undivided Bengal's premier.
The resolution said: 'The areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority, as in the northwestern and eastern zones of India, they should be grouped to constitute independent states in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign." The phrase, 'independent states', indicated more than one.
This phrase came in handy to the people in East Pakistan during their freedom struggle.They argued that the creation of two "independent states' was conceived in the very resolution which was put forward to demand for the creation of Pakistan.
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 Statement of Dr. Imran Farooq 24 Jan 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
They sought ways and means of resolution or removal of these sense of sustained deprivation ingrained in the minds and hearts of the people of Sindh at the grass root levels.
Dr Imran Farooq responding to their questions said that Pakistan came into existence in accordance with the Lahore Resolution of 1940, as a result of unparalleled sacrifices of the Muslims of the minority provinces of undivided India.
He further added that according to the spirit and essence of Lahore Resolution which was later termed as Pakistan Resolution, all the provinces were to be granted total provincial autonomy but sadly after the creation of Pakistan, the provinces particularly former East Pakistan and the smaller provinces were totally denied the provincial autonomy.
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Resolution by the Quaid-i-Azam to prepare a scheme of reforms for the consideration of the British Government.
The Muslim League passes a resolution adopted by the Khilafat Conference.
The historic Pakistan Resolution is passed on 23rd March by one hundred thousand members of the League attending the Lahore Session.
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 Decoding The Nawaz-Vajpayee Summit
After all by inviting Vajpayee for a Lahore summit Nawaz Sharif had taken his previous one-on-one interactions with Vajpayee to a climax; along with it the level of public expectation and criticism of the summit.
Moving away from what have appeared insolvable bilateral issues the two countries, under international gaze and some domestic concern, admitted that tangible and active bilateral cooperation is indispensable to responsible management of nuclear programmes and arsenals.
Therefore, for this process to move further on and not be sacrificed at the altar of cautious and time-hardened Indian bureaucrats, the survival of Vajpayee's Prime Ministership is a must.
www.defencejournal.com /feb-mar99/nawaz-vajpayee.htm   (1359 words)

  
 Quaid-e-Azam (Mohammad Ali Jinnah)
On March 22-23, 1940, in Lahore, the league adopted a resolution to form a separate Muslim state, Pakistan.
He moved from Karachi to Lahore for a while and supervised the immediate refugee problem in the Punjab.
He advised his excited audience in Lahore to concentrate on helping the refugees,to avoid retaliation, exercise restraint and protect the minorities.
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 PAKISTAN INDIA PEOPLES CONVENTION ON PEACE AND DEMOCRACY Lahore, NOVEMBER 10-11, 1995
It was during these informal exchanges in Lahore in 1995, that representatives of organisations of fisherfolk of the two countries met and agreed to work for the welfare of fishermen and their children languishing in each other's jails because they had strayed across the international waters.
Whereas the first two joint conventions in Delhi and Lahore had been against an atmosphere of extremely jingoistic hate rhetoric, by the time of the Calcutta convention, there was a decisive shift in the official stance away from the politics of hate to reducing tension.
Endorsing the Lahore Resolution on the adverse effects of foreign and domestic policies of a militaristic nature on the daily life of citizens as reflected in the growth of a culture of violence and aggressive communalised nationalism, a distorted model of masculinity and an increasing sense of insecurity, it was recommended that
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