New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- With both India and Pakistan are going to celebrate their 79th Independence Day this week, people often get confused why these neighbours celebrate their independence on different dates, despite attaining freedom from British colonial rule on the same date.

According to the details, the Indian Independence Act of 1947 had created two new independent dominions - India and Pakistan - by partitioning the Bengal and Punjab provinces.

The Act states: "As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India, to be known respectively as India and Pakistan."

The founding father of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, in his historic radio address declared that "A...