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  2. Political history of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    The political history of Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان کی سیاسی تاريخ) is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders of Pakistan. Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947, when the Presidencies and provinces of British India were divided by the United Kingdom, in a ...

  3. Instrument of Accession - Wikipedia

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    The Instrument of Accession was a legal document first introduced by the Government of India Act 1935 and used in 1947 to enable each of the rulers of the princely states under British paramountcy to join one of the new dominions of India or Pakistan created by the Partition of British India. The instruments of accession executed by the rulers ...

  4. History of Pakistan (1947–present) - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan began on 14 August 1947 when the country came into being in the form of Dominion of Pakistan within the British Commonwealth as the result of Pakistan Movement and the partition of India. While the history of the Pakistani Nation according to the Pakistan government's official chronology ...

  5. Standstill agreement (India) - Wikipedia

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    A standstill agreement was an agreement signed between the newly independent dominions of India and Pakistan and the princely states of the British Indian Empire prior to their integration in the new dominions. The form of the agreement was bilateral between a dominion and a princely state. It provided that all the administrative arrangements ...

  6. Indian Independence Act 1947 - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Independence Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 30) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The Act received Royal Assent on 18 July 1947 and thus modern-day India and Pakistan, comprising west (modern day Pakistan) and east (modern day ...

  7. Pakistan–United Kingdom relations - Wikipedia

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    Pakistan–United Kingdom relations refer to the bilateral ties between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Both countries are members of the Commonwealth of Nations, and the United Kingdom is home to a large Pakistani diaspora population. [1] Until 1956, Pakistan was nominally part of ...

  8. History of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    A map outlining historical sites in Pakistan. The History of Pakistan precedes the country's independence in 1947. [1] Although Pakistan was created in 1947 as an independent country by the British [2] through the partition of British India, the history of Pakistan extends much further back and is intertwined with that of Afghanistan, India ...

  9. Pakistan Declaration - Wikipedia

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    The " Pakistan Declaration " (titled Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?) was a pamphlet written and published by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] on 28 January 1933, in which the word Pakstan (without the letter "i") was used for the first time and was circulated to the delegates of the Third Round Table Conference in ...