The Partition Crisis and the Joint Defence Council: Operational Decisions in the Dominion of Pakistan under M.A. Jinnah's Leadership

Sub title : Special Joint Defence Council Meeting & Tour Programmes of the Dominion Prime Ministers, August 1947

Subject: India-Pakistan Partition, 1947 | Joint Defence Council | Punjab Boundary Force

Date of publication: 1947

Language: English

Page: 11p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 27444

Keyword: Partition 1947 — Joint Defence Council — Punjab Boundary Force — Refugees | Communal Violence — Dominion of Pakistan — M.A. Jinnah — Liaquat Ali Khan — Jawaharlal Nehru | Mountbatten — Auchinleck — Punjab

Abstract: This file contains the official communiqué and annexes from the Special Meeting of the Joint Defence Council held in Lahore on 29 August 1947. The documents capture the immediate, violent aftermath of the Partition. Key decisions include the dissolution of the overwhelmed Punjab Boundary Force and the transfer of its responsibilities to the individual militaries of India and Pakistan.

Description: A critical primary source document from the first month of Pakistan's existence. It provides a stark, real-time account of the administrative and military challenges faced by the new governments of India and Pakistan in the wake of Partition. The decisions recorded here, made under the overarching authority of Pakistan's Governor-General M.A. Jinnah and India's leadership, mark a pivotal shift from joint to separate security management of the border crisis, highlighting the scale of the collapse of law and order and the immense humanitarian tragedy unfolding in the Punjab. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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