902 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র principle of justice to all, and peace at any cost. These colonial minded ruling cliques of West Pakistan, stubbornly stuck to the gory side of religion and never appreciated the essence of any religion of the world. The rulers of the west proved themselves to be the most irreligious people of the world, ignorant of Islam and innocent of any higher civilized norm of life. I have no hesitation to declare that those who have no spilt the blood to stifle the voice of freedom can call themselves heathen but they have no right to call themselves Muslims. It is an irony, that the poet, who dreamt of Pakistan, did not include Bengal as a part of that country. In December 1930, in Alahabad session of the Muslim League, Sir Mahammad Iqbal, could not conceive of such molestation of geography. His proposal reads as follows: "I would like to see the Punjab, the North West Frontier Province Sind and Baluchistan into a single State". The name of Pakistan was first suggested by a student Mr. Rahmat Ali of Cambridge University in 1930, in a leaflet, he too did not include Bengal in the territory of proposed Pakistan. In 1933, in the round table conference in London at a session of the joint parliamentary committee Reginald Craddocx asked the delegation of Indian Muslims, led by Yusuf Ali to comment on the scheme of Pakistan. The reply was "It is a students' scheme and there is nothing in it", he also added "we have considered it chimerical and unpractical." What then brought about the creation of Pakistan? It is the famous Lahore resolution of 1940-that gave the first glimpse of the new State. It was recorded in the language quoted below. "No Constitutional plan would be workable in this country acceptable to the Muslims unless it is designed on the following basic principles-viz. the geographically continuous 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 Zone & of India should be grouped to Constitute Independent States in which the Constituent Units shall be autonomous and sovereign". It is very clear from the language that the resolution, whatever is its merits, conceived, of "two sovereign States". Are we to say now that Mr. Jinnah, did not know the significance of the word, "Sovereign" or the use of plural number, after the word 'State' and 'Unit'. It is too frivolous an argument. On the 3rd June 1947, Mr. Nehru in a broadcast message accepted the proposal of Pakistan in the following words. "For generations we have dreamt and struggled for a free independent and united India, the proposal to allow certain parts to secede, if they so will, is painful for any of us to contemplate. Nevertheless I am convinced that our present decision is right one even from the larger viewpoint". I have referred to these legal documents only to invite the attention of the world, to show that two sovereign States were conceived in the very document which brought Pakistan into existence.
