Pakistan Day
| Pakistan Day یوم پاکستان | |
|---|---|
 Two JF-17 Thunder fighter jets flown at the Joint Inter-Services parade in Islamabad on 23 March 2007. | |
| Official name | Urdu: یوم پاکستان lit. Yaum-e-Pakistan[Note 1] |
| Observed by |  Pakistan |
| Significance | Commemoration of Pakistan Resolution and Constitution |
| Date | 23 March |
| Celebrations | Full Joint Inter-Services military parade, conferring of national decorations |
| Observances | Pakistan (Diplomatic missions of Pakistan in other countries) |
Pakistan Day (Urdu: یوم پاکستان, lit. Yaum-e-Pakistan) or Pakistan Resolution Day, also Republic Day, is a national holiday in Pakistan. It is celebrated on 23 March each year. At start this day was celebrated for the adoption of the first Constitution of Pakistan during the transition of the Dominion of Pakistan to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 23 March 1956 making Pakistan the world's first Islamic republic.[1] Later, this day celebrates the adoption of the Lahore Resolution by the Muslim League at the Minar-e-Pakistan (lit. Pakistan Tower) which called for the creation of an independent sovereign state derived from the provinces with Muslim majorities located in the North-West and East of British India (excluding autonomous princely States) on 23 March 1940.
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- ↑ John Stewart Bowman (2000). Columbia chronologies of Asian history and culture. Columbia University Press. p. 372. ISBN 978-0-231-11004-4. Retrieved 22 March 2011.