Learned counsel for the appellant has challenged the correctness of that view, and has submitted (1) that on a true construction of article 8 of the Independence Order, 1947, the contract under consideration in this case was as from the appointed day (i.e., August 15, 1947), a contract exclusively for the purposes of the Dominion of 1044 Pakistan and shall be deemed to have been made on behalf of that Dominion, and all rights and liabilities which have accrued or may accrue under such contract shall be the rights and liabilities of the Dominion of Pakistan; (2) that the Defence Order, 1947, which set up a Joint Defence Council and provides for the exercise of certain powers of control by the said Council under article 8 of that Order did not in any way affect the rights and liabilities arising out of the contract, which rights and liabilities were governed by the relevant provisions of the Independence Order, 1947; and (3) that, in any view, the claim in the present case did not relate to military stores as the High Court wrongly assumed, and the Defence Order, 1947, had no application at all to the facts of this case.