[1] Mountbatten instructed the NWFP acting Governor Rob Lockhart that "each side should have equal facilities in the matter of the supply of petrol."

Mountbatten met the leaders of the All-India Muslim League and the Indian National Congress, and the following election charter was declared:[1] Although the voter turnout was low (51.00%), 99.02% of the votes were in favor of joining Pakistan.

In the Pashtun rural constituencies, the turnout was low in the districts of Mardan (41.56%) and Peshawar (41.68%), strongholds of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement which boycotted the referendum in favor of demanding a choice to form an independent Pashtunistan or joining Afghanistan.

A Muslim League leader, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, was installed as the new Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province on 23 August 1947.

In July 1948, the British governor of the North-West Frontier Province, Ambrose Flux Dundas, enforced an ordinance which authorized the provincial government to detain anyone and confiscate their property without giving a reason.

[14] In mid-September 1948, the Pakistani government banned the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, who had boycotted the 1947 NWFP referendum, and many of their supporters were arrested.