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Lord Mountbatten announced that the transfer of power would take place on August 15, 1947.On June 9, the Council of the All-India Muslim League met in Delhi and passed a resolution in favour of the Plan. The Council gave the Quaid full authority “to accept the fundamental principles of the Plan as a compromise " and to take all-necessary steps and decisions in connection with it”.
On June 14, the All-India Congress Committee passed a resolution accepting the Plan, although it regretted “the secession of some parts of the country." The time from June 3, 1947, when the partition plan was announced, to August 15, 1947 the date of the transfer of power to the two new Dominions – the Union of India and Pakistan was seventy-two days in all. The Indian Independence Act was passed to set up the Dominions of India and Pakistan. So on August 14, 1947,within seven years after the adoption of Lahore Resolution, Pakistan emerged as an independent sovereign State under the relentless, able and dynamic leadership of the Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
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