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Events on Thursday 14 August 1947 1
1947Independence of PakistanPakistan emerges from the partition of British IndiaPakistan became an independent dominion on 14 August 1947, with Muhammad Ali Jinnah as its first Governor-General. It was formed from two separate wings in the Muslim-majority northwest and east of the subcontinent. The new state was created by the Indian Independence Act passed by the British Parliament in July.