 With the British and Muslims to some extent cooperating , the Viceroy asked Jinnah for an expression of the Muslim League 's position on self @-@ government , confident that it would differ greatly from that of the Congress . To come up with such a position , the League 's Working Committee met for four days in February 1940 to set out terms of reference to a constitutional sub @-@ committee . The Working Committee asked that the sub @-@ committee return with a proposal that would result in " independent dominions in direct relationship with Great Britain " where Muslims were dominant . On 6 February , Jinnah informed the Viceroy that the Muslim League would be demanding partition instead of the federation contemplated in the 1935 Act . The Lahore Resolution ( sometimes called the " Pakistan Resolution " , although it does not contain that name ) , based on the sub @-@ committee 's work , embraced the Two @-@ Nation Theory and called for a union of the Muslim @-@ majority provinces in the northwest of British India , with complete autonomy . Similar rights were to grant the Muslim @-@ majority areas in the east , and unspecified protections given to Muslim minorities in other provinces . The resolution was passed by the League session in Lahore on 23 March 1940 . 
