Pakistan Affairs · Creation and early years of Pakistan. The idea in plain words, the rules to remember, the mistake to avoid and a worked example, written and checked by Mega Lecture.
The Objectives Resolution was the first step towards a constitution. Liaquat Ali Khan moved it in the Constituent Assembly, which passed it in March 1949. It laid down the principles the future constitution had to follow, joining Islamic principles with democracy.
The second challenge was language. Most Pakistanis lived in East Bengal and spoke Bengali, but in March 1948 at Dhaka Jinnah said that Urdu alone would be the state language. Protest grew, and on 21 February 1952 police fired on students in Dhaka.
The anger showed in the East Bengal elections of 1954. The United Front, with a 21-point programme, routed the Muslim League, but its ministry was soon dismissed.
Students call the Objectives Resolution Pakistan's first constitution. It was a statement of guiding principles; the first constitution came seven years later, in 1956.
Answer: Recognition of Bengali as a state language, first demanded in the streets, then at the ballot box, then granted in the constitution.
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