Within five weeks of the Pakistan Resolution of the Muslim League in Lahore, Indian Muslims organized Muslim Azad Conference between April 27-30, 1940 in Delhi. Allah Baksh, former Premier of Sindh, was the leading light of this conference.
Soomro was murdered on May 14, 1943 by hired assassins at Shikarpur in Sind. In his tribute, C. Rajagopalachari opined that India had lost one of its most ardent and self-sacrificing spirits
A standard narrative exists about the role of Muslims during the Partition in India, which talks about how the Muslim community, led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his Muslim League, stood for the two-nation theory and demanded the Partition of India. Historical documents, however, suggest that a majority of the Muslims opposed the Partition and stayed in India.