Independence Day in Pakistan is celebrated annually on August 14. It commemorates the end of British rule in 1947, the creation of Pakistan as an independent homeland for Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, and the partition of British India into Pakistan and India, which occurred at midnight on August 14–15, 1947.
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