A ranar 14 ga Agusta, 1947, Pakistan ta zama ƙasa mai cin gashin kanta, sai Indiya ta sami 'yancin kai washegari.Wannan lamari mai cike da tarihi ya kawo karshen mulkin mallaka na Birtaniya a yankin.Wani muhimmin al'amari na wannan sauyi shi ne rabon lardunan Punjab da Bengal bisa kididdigar addini, wanda Hukumar Radcliffe ta shirya.An yi zargin cewa Lord Mountbatten, mataimakin na karshe na Indiya, ya rinjayi hukumar ta fifita Indiya.Sakamakon haka, yankin yammacin Punjab mafi rinjayen musulmi ya zama wani yanki na Pakistan, yayin da yankin gabas, masu rinjaye na Hindu da Sikh, suka shiga Indiya.Duk da rarrabuwar kawuna na addini, dukkanin yankuna biyu suna da ƴan tsiraru na sauran addinai.Da farko, ba a yi tsammanin cewa rabon zai buƙaci a yi jigilar jama'a mai yawa ba.Ana sa ran tsirarun za su ci gaba da kasancewa a yankunansu.Koyaya, saboda tsananin tashin hankalin jama'a a Punjab, an sami keɓancewa, wanda ya haifar da yarjejeniya tsakanin Indiya da Pakistan don musayar jama'a ta tilastawa a Punjab.Wannan musanya ta rage kasancewar tsirarun mabiya addinin Hindu da Sikh a Punjab Pakistan da kuma al'ummar musulmi a yankin Punjab na Indiya, tare da wasu tsiraru kamar al'ummar musulmi a Malerkotla, Indiya.Rikicin a Punjab ya yi tsanani kuma ya yadu.Masanin kimiyyar siyasa Ishtiaq Ahmed ya lura cewa, duk da cin zarafi na farko da musulmi suka yi, tashin hankalin ramuwar gayya ya yi sanadiyar mutuwar musulmi a Gabashin Punjab (Indiya) fiye da mutuwar Hindu da Sikh a yammacin Punjab (Pakistan).^[1] Firayim Ministan Indiya Jawaharlal Nehru ya ba da rahoto ga Mahatma Gandhi cewa Musulmin da aka kashe a Gabashin Punjab sun ninka na Hindu da Sikh a Yammacin Punjab a karshen watan Agustan 1947. ^[2.]Sakamakon rabuwar kai ya ga daya daga cikin ƙaura mafi girma a tarihi, inda sama da mutane miliyan goma ke ketare sabbin kan iyakokin.Rikicin da aka yi a wannan lokacin, tare da kiyasin adadin wadanda suka mutu daga 200,000 zuwa 2,000,000, ^[3] wasu malamai sun bayyana shi a matsayin 'kisan kare dangi.'Gwamnatin Pakistan ta bayar da rahoton cewa, kimanin mata musulmi 50,000 ne mazan Hindu da mabiya addinin Sikh suka sace tare da yi musu fyade.Hakazalika, gwamnatin Indiya ta yi ikirarin cewa musulmi sun yi garkuwa da mata 'yan Hindu da 'yan Sikh kimanin 33,000 tare da yi musu fyade.^[4] Wannan lokaci na tarihi yana da alaƙa da sarƙaƙƙiya, tsadar ɗan adam, da kuma tasirinsa mai dorewa akan dangantakar Indiya da Pakistan.