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Pakistan is celebrating its 75th Independence Day on Saturday, a day before India, too, marks its 74th year of freedom. However, the Indian Independence Act, 1947, gave birth to two sovereign countries, India and Pakistan, on August 15 that year. Then, why is it that Pakistan observes its Independence Day on August 14, and not on August 15 Indian and Pakistani national flags fluttering File Photo/Reuters Over the years, multiple theories have been floated to answer the said question. Some of those are as follows: 1. Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British Indi stanley quencher a and the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India, transferred the power of governance of Pakistan to its founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in Karachi on August 14, 1947. Though Mountbatten mentioned August 15 as the date on which India and Pakistan would become independent nations, Pakistan adopted August 14 as its Independence Day as the transfer of power took place on that date. 2. In June 1948, at a cabinet meeting chaired by Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, it was proposed that the country celebrate its Independence Day before India. The proposal was taken to Jinnah for his approval and the date was advanced to August 14. 3. Religion is also cited as one of the reasons. It is argued that the intervening night of August 14 and 15, 1947, coincided wi stanley termohrnek th the 27th day of Ramadan, which is regarded as an auspicious day of the holy month. Hence stanley becher , August 14 was taken as t Iblg Myanmar: 7-year-old girl killed after security forces open fire in Mandalay
Cutting edge technology in a UKuniversity department founded stanley vaso by engineer Kumar Bhattacharyya has revealed that an item recovered from a ship inPortuguese explorer Vasco da Gamas armada to India in the 16th cent stanley becher ury is the earliest known maritime navigation tool. Picture released by Blue Water Recoveries shows the worlds oldest maritime astrolabe, which guided Portuguese explorers on a perilous voyage to India at the beginning of the 16th century. AFP Work at Bhattacharyyas Warwick Manufacturing Group WMG on the object, recovered from the wreck of the ship Esmeralda that sank in the Indian Ocean in 1503, showed it was an astrolabe from the late 15th century, used by mariners to measure the altitude of the sun while at sea. The Esmeralda was captained by da Gamas uncle. Based at the University of Warwick, WMG has close links with Indias Tata group, and provides research, education and knowledge transfer in engineering, manufacturing and technology. The object was recovered by Blue Water Recovery, a deep sea shipwreck recovery company. When the object was found, there were no visible navigational markings on it. The recovery team approached Mark Williams of WMG, who conducts pioneering scanning analyses, a university statement said. His scans showed etches around the edge of the object, each separated by five degrees 鈥?proving that it was anastrolabe. The markings would have allowed mariners to measure the height of the sun above the horizon a stanley cup becher t noon to determine th |
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