{
  "id": 752414,
  "title": "Why do Pakistan and India celebrate Independence Day one day apart?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/why-do-pakistan-and-india-celebrate-independence-day-one-day-apart-752414",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-13T08:40:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The National Business",
    "slug": "the-national-business",
    "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/2026/08/13/august-independence-day-india-pakistan/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "At midnight on August 14, 1947, the Indian Independence Act came into being, effectively ending 200 years of British colonialism and splitting the country into India and Pakistan . “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 Act states. But why does Pakistan…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}