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2022 File chronicling events in Pakistan's history as the country faces a constitutional crisis
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0:45Now PlayingDate: 4th April 2022
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Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION (FILE - SEPTEMBER, 1947) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS))
VARIOUS OF MUSLIM REFUGEES FLEEING TOWARDS PAKISTAN IN BULLOCK CARTS
MAN LIFTING WOMAN ONTO SHOULDERS
TODDLER ON BACK OF MULE
MUSLIM REFUGEES FLEEING
After the partition, the leader of the Muslim League Mohammad Ali Jinnah was sworn in as the first Governor-General of Pakistan.
Louis Mountbatten, who was sworn in as first Governor-General of the Dominion of India, was the chief guest at the occasion, held in the newly-formed Pakistani capital of Karachi.
Shortly after, India and Pakistan went to war over the disputed border region of Kashmir, which ended with a U.N.-ordered ceasefire and resolution seeking a plebiscite for the people of Jammu and Kashmir to decide whether to become part
of India or Pakistan.
KARACHI, PAKISTAN (FILE - AUGUST 14, 1947) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS))
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF PAKISTAN, MOHAMMAD ALI JINNAH, ARRIVING AT CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY WITH HIS SISTER FATIMA JINNAH
GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA, LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN ARRIVING IN CAR WITH HIS WIFE, EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN, AT CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
MOUNTBATTEN READING OUT MESSAGE TO PAKISTAN FROM KING IN THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
FATIMA JINNAH AND EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN SITTING
JINNAH READING OUT MESSAGE AFTER BEING SWORN IN AS FIRST GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF PAKISTAN
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