A diabolic disinformation is going on during the last 50 years by the fifth-columnists and pseudo-intellectuals that the Lahore Resolution of All India Muslim League Council passed on March 23, 1940 at Lahore that contains the word states instead of "state" while referring to the future state of Pakistan. I want to categorically and once for all, bury this deliberately created monumental propaganda, which is used in order to justify the creation of Bangladesh and to 'balkanise' the rest of Pakistan. It is pertinent to note that it was customary that the members of Muslim League Council had a pre-defined system of passing any resolution. First they used to table a resolution which was supposed to be passed and handed over to the council members who debated the resolution at length and after contemplating its pros and cons, for full one year before it was presented in the next session of All India Muslim League's Council for final ratification. The system was so crystal clear and pre-defined that no one had any objection after passing of these resolutions. Quoting from the recently published second edition of the famous book Foundations of Pakistan by Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada, I would like to draw the attention of all to the All India Muslim League's twenty-eighth session at Madras on April 1941 in which an amendment was Proposed by Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, seconded by Haji Abdus Sattar, Haji Essak Sait and supported by Mr B Dawood Shah, Qazi Muhammad Isa, Nawab Sir Muhammad Yousaf, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, Begum Muhammad Ali, Maulana Ahmad Sait, Sir Abdullah Haroon, Mr Muhammad Usman and Maulana Abdul Wahab Bukhari. At the session of the Muslim League held in Madras in April 1941, The Lahore Resolution was made the creed of the Muslim League, and the aims and objects of the Muslim League were amended so as to conform thereto. It is interesting to note that the word 'together' was added after the word 'grouped', the amendment reads: "The North-Western and Eastern zones of India shall be grouped 'together' to constitute independent States as Muslim Free National Homelands in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign. In a signed preface to India 's Problem of Her Future Constitution, as early as October 7, 1940, the Quaid-i-Azam said, "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 an 'independent State', in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign." On December 2, 1944, the Quaid-i-Azam gave an interview to Mr Paul Fang of the Central News Agency of China and explained Pakistan in these words: "There are six provinces in the North-West and East zone of this great sub-continent of India and those are Sindh, Balochistan, NWFP, the Punjab, Bengal and Assam. In the Northern zone Musalmans have a majority of 70 percent as against the caste Hindus, and they (the provinces) have been the homelands of Musalmans for one thousand years, and we want to establish our independent sovereign Muslim State." Sir B N Rao, Constitutional Adviser to the Government of India, and later a judge of the International Court of Justice, gave the following interpretation of the Lahore Resolution in his outline entitled A New Constitution, prepared for the benefit of the Government of India, 1945: According to the Resolution, the two regions, with necessary territorial adjustments, are to be 'independent States in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign'. The language used is loose: apparently what is meant is that the two regions should form a single independent State, Pakistan, of which the several provinces are to be constituent units. In other words, Pakistan is to be a Federation by itself. At present the whole of British India is in a sense a single Federation; Mr Jinnah seems to contemplate its division into two Federations, Pakistan and Hindustan, independent of each other. The Pakistan Federation would thus consist of two 'zones' separated from each other by Hindustan territory. An authoritative interpretation of the Lahore Resolution by the Quaid-i-Azam is found in the famous Gandhi-Jinnah correspondence of September 1944. Mr Gandhi enquired: Are the constituents in the two zones to constitute 'independent States' - an undefined number in each zone? The Quaid-i-Azam replied: No. They will form units of Pakistan. Pakistan is composed of two zones, North-West and North-East, comprising of six provinces, namely, Sindh, Balochistan, North West Frontier Province, the Punjab, Bengal and Assam, subject to territorial adjustments that may be agreed upon, as indicated in the Lahore Resolution. On November 8, 1945, the Quaid-i-Azam gave an interview to a representative of the Associated Press of America, who reports on this interview as follows: "Pakistan would embrace all of the North-Western Frontier, Balochistan, Sindh and the Punjab provinces in north-western India. On the eastern side of India would be the other portion of Pakistan composed of Bengal (including the rich industrial and port city of Calcutta) and Assam provinces." Mr Jinnah contended, Pakistan divided into two separate zones, is just as sound an undertaking as though it would be a country with all of its States in 'one block'; that its natural resources and population would be sufficient to make it a great world power. He said, "Even now a Muslim League Committee is studying the field for developing the Pakistan States as a nation." He said there would be ample revenues from "equitable taxation levied in a manner consistent with social justice" to finance good government and "allow us to have as State as good as any in the world and better than many sovereign countries on the map of the world today." Pakistan's theory, he said, guarantees that federated units of the national government would "have all the autonomy that you will find in the constitutions of the United States of America, Canada and Australia. But certain vital powers will remain vested in the central government, such as the monetary system, national defence and other federal responsibilities." He said each federated State or province would have its own legislative, executive and judicial system, each of the branches of government constitutionally separate." On April 9, 1946 (as indicated earlier) the open session of the League Legislatures unanimously adopted a resolution which clearly indicated that Pakistan intended to be a single, sovereign State. The resolution, inter alia provided: "That the zones comprising Bengal and Assam in the North-East and Punjab, NWFP, Sindh and Balochistan in the North-West of India, namely Pakistan zones, where the Muslims are in a dominant majority be constituted in a sovereign independent State, and that an unequivocal understanding be given to implement the establishment of Pakistan without delay...." It may also be mentioned that the council of the All India Muslim League while endorsing the Delhi Resolution of April 1946 in its meeting held on June 6, 1946 at Delhi, clearly said that the Council of the All India Muslim League reiterates that the attainment of the goal of a complete sovereign Pakistan still remains the unalterable objective of the Muslims of India. Subsequently on July 29, 1946 the League Council in its meeting held at Bombay, while withdrawing its acceptance of the Cabinet Mission Proposals resolved to observe August l6, 1946 as the "Direct Action Day" throughout India. In its meeting, the council said, "The scheme of Cabinet Mission fell short of the demand of the Muslim Nation for the immediate establishment of an independent and full sovereign State of Pakistan comprising the six provinces. I hope that now it is crystal clear what the forefathers meant by the word "States" in the Lahore Resolution 1940.