Given below are two statements, one labeled as Assertion (A) and the other labeled as Reason (R): Assertion (A): The Cabinet Mission Plan of $1946$ officially recommended the immediate partition of India into two separate sovereign nations. Reason (R): The Mission concluded that a separate state of Pakistan would not solve the communal minority problem and would create serious defense and communication complications. In the context of the above statements, which of the following is correct?

Options:

• A: Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
• B: Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
• C: (A) is true but (R) is false.
• D: (A) is false but (R) is true.

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