Viceroy Mountbatten remained hesitant to publish the boundary awards given the deteriorating security situation and need for co-ordination and co-operation between India and Pakistan.
In a letter addressed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Mountbatten expressed:
“It had been my intention to publish the Award in a Gazette Extraordinary as soon as it was received and the maps reproduced; but, to judge from reports I have heard and the messages I have received from leaders in both India and Pakistan, there is such apprehension about the nature of the findings that I do not feel that it should be published without an opportunity being given for a discussion of them between duly authorised representatives of India and Pakistan.“
Source: ‘Rear-Admiral Viscount Mountbatten oj Burma to Pandit Nehru’ cited in Nicholas Mansergh & Penderel Moon (eds.), Transfer of Power, vol. XII, p. 694