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Dominion of Pakistan
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Dominion of Pakistan
The
Dominion of Pakistan
( ; ), commonly called
Pakistan
, was an independent federal
dominion
in South Asia that was established in 1947 on the
Partition of India
into two sovereign countries (the other being the
Dominion of India
). The dominion, which included much of modern-day
Pakistan
and
Bangladesh
, was conceived under the
two-nation theory
as a home for the
Muslims
of the former
British India
. To begin with it did not include the
princely states of Pakistan
, which acceded slowly between 1947 and 1948. In 1956 it became the
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
; and in 1971
East Pakistan
seceded from the union to become
Bangladesh
.
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