Why pakistan celebrate Independence a day before India?
75 years ago, the country got independence, but it had to be paid in the form of partition. Two pieces of the same country. One became india and the other Pakistan. Of course, we are celebrating 75 years of independence. Everywhere there is a celebration of the nectar festival of freedom, but the pain of partition is no less. This is the reason why the initiative was taken by prime minister Narendra Modi to celebrate 14 august as Partition Vibhishika Memorial Day. However, in the midst of all this, the question has also been arising that both the countries became independent on the same day, then why does pakistan celebrate its independence day on august 14, a day before India?
What does history say?
Some reports say that india got independence from the british on august 15, but the approval of a separate country as pakistan was received on august 14. It was on this day that the british Lord Mountbatten handed over power to pakistan by giving it the status of an independent country. So that on august 15, the top officials of pakistan can come to New delhi and participate in India's first Independence Day program.
Freedom Act was signed at 12 o'clock at the night
Some reports suggest that the british had signed the indian Independence Act on 15 august 1947 at 00:00 in New Delhi. Pakistan's time is 30 minutes ahead therefore, when the law was signed, it was only 14 august in Pakistan.
Celebrations in Pakistan
According to a BBC report, after the formation of pakistan, the two anniversaries of independence i.e. 1948 and 1949, Independence Day was celebrated on 15 august only. But after the passing of Mo Jinnah, this moment was celebrated 24 hours ago. And since then 14th august is the Independence Day of Pakistan.
In this way, this thing has been expressed differently in different reports and facts, but the truth is that pakistan celebrates its independence a day before India. Along with this, 14 august is now being celebrated in india as Memorial Day to remember the horrors of Partition.
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