Pakistan and India 78th anniversary of independence celebrated in Newcastle
18 Aug 2024
Pictured here Liberal Democrats Councillors Greg Syone, Wendy Taylor, Robin Ashby and Deborah Burns on a windless evening before the official ceremony began.
Why the difference in dates?
Under the India Independence Act of 1947, legal independence of the two new countries came on 15th August, but the last Viceroy Earl Mountbatten of Burma travelled to Karachi for apublic announcement of the granting of independence to Pakistan on 14th August 1947.