After holding talks with political leaders and parties, Mountbatten prepared a Partition Plan for the transfer of power which, after its approval by the British Govemment, was announced on June 3, 1947. Both the Congress and the Muslim League acceptoed the plan. Two largest Muslim majority provinces, Bengal and Punjab were partitioned. The assemblies of West Punjab, East Bengal, and Sindh and in Baiuchistan, the Quetta Municipality and the Shahi Jirga voted for Pakistan. Referendum were held in the North-West Frontier Province and the District of Sylhet in Assam which resulted in an overwhelming vote for Pakistan. On August 14, 1947, the new state of Pakistan came into existence.
