Uneasily present himself at the League rally, Sikander was henceforth forced to speak in two tongues. He was for Pakistan (the name was soon attached to the Lahore resolution) but also against it. ‘We do not ask for freedom,’ he would say in 1941, ‘that there may be a Muslim raj here and a Hindu raj elsewhere. If this is what Pakistan means, I will have nothing to do with it.’53 He belonged to the League but was not part of it. He was for a sovereign Pakistan but also for a loose confederation. And so forth.
