Independence Day 2021: Why Pakistan celebrates freedom a day before India
Pakistan is celebrating its 75th Independence Day on Saturday, each day before India, too, marks its 74th year of freedom. However, the Indian Independence Act, 1947, gave birth to 2 sovereign countries, India and Pakistan, on Assumption that year. Then, why is it that Pakistan observes its Independence Day on August 14, and not on August Over the years, multiple theories are floated to answer the said question. a number of those are as follows:
Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British India and therefore the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India, transferred the facility of governance of Pakistan to its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in Karachi on August 14, 1947. Though Mountbatten mentioned Assumption because the date on which India and Pakistan would become independen...