LAHORE: Pakistan Founder Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was of the opinion that two sovereign states should be named Hindustan and Pakistan, but to his utter surprise, Hindustan was named India by the colonial rulers despite his reservations. Dr Martin Lau Dean of Sheikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences stated while delivering a lecture on MA Jinnah & the Missing Case of Pakistani Constitution, held under the auspices of Information Technology University (ITU)’s Centre for Governance & Policy. He shared his research outcomes regarding the legal developments in the early decade and said that in the early years after independence, Pakistan lagged behind India in terms of constitutional development being a newly born country on the map of the world. He said that Jinnah wanted democracy, unity and social justice in the newly established state of Pakistan as in the understanding of Jinnah, there was something progressive in Islam as compared to Hinduism. Dr Martin Lau described the historical developments and said that in 1943, Muslim League started using the term Hindu Raj and Jinnah feared that an independent India under the domination of Hindus would turn the Muslims into a perpetual minority, therefore, he focused on a separate homeland for Muslims of the majority areas of Hindustan. Published in Daily Times, May 28th 2018.