The resolution called for the Muslim-majority provinces of British India to be constituted as separate, independent states - it did not specify a single state.

Muslim-majority British provinces in the north were to become the foundation of Pakistan.

Leaders of the Congress decided that having loosely tied Muslim-majority provinces as part of a future India was not worth the loss of the powerful government at the centre which they desired.

Additionally, the proposal called for the "grouping" of provinces on religious lines, which would informally band together the Muslim-majority provinces.

However, ensuing communal conflict led to the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan from Muslim-majority provinces.

Wednesday's attacks took place in the Yala, Pattani and Songkhla provinces, the country's only Muslim-majority provinces.

Its territory comprised most of the Muslim-majority provinces of British India.

She spends months in the Muslim-majority provinces every year.

While Iqbal espoused the idea of Muslim-majority provinces in 1930, Jinnah would continue to hold talks with the Congress through the decade and only officially embraced the goal of Pakistan in 1940.

In his presidential address on 29 December 1930, Iqbal outlined a vision of an independent state for Muslim-majority provinces in northwestern India: