Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) Presidential Address:

 While presiding over the All-Indian Muslim League session at Lahore in 1940, Quaid-e-Azam (Rahmatullah) identified the direction for           the struggle of the Muslims. The main points of his address are as under:

1. The Muslims are a separate nation because their customs, traditions, civilization, culture and above all religion is different from Hindus. Even though they had been living together for centuries, both have their distinctive identification. If the Sub-continent gets freedom in the form of United India, the rights of the Muslims will not be protected.
2. The demand of the Muslims for a separate country is not unhistorical. Ireland got freedom from England; Spain and Portugal became separate states; Czechoslovakia got a separate identity because of the partition. The problem in India is not for an inter-communal character but manifestly of an international one, and it must be treated as such.
3. British India is a Sub-continent. It is not a country or homeland of a nation. Many nations are living here, and their interests are separate from one another.