“Advantages of Creation of Bangladesh to Pakistan”.

M.Akram Khan Niazi, Pakistan

Usually smaller Parts of a country having extraordinary resources tries to break away from the mainland
to take the maximum advantage of their resources for their advantage, and to protect themselves from
the drain of their resources to majority or dominant section of the country, but in case of Pakistan Majority
Part on the basis of population, which was also having scare resources, separated from the other part,
Generally, it is regarded as an unfortunate event for Pakistan by people of Pakistan, and no Pakistani tries
to see other side of the coin of that event for analysis of the benefits achieved to them by this event

The reason of this is that all literature about that event has been written by those who were living in East
Pakistan and they suffered personally by this event, due to which they always indicate their miseries and
losses and forget to explain the advantages of that event to whole Pakistani Nation. Therefore, it is
necessary to see the real results of this event. With the separation of East Pakistan, following advantages
were achieved to Pakistan.

1. Economical

•Separation of Bangladesh was as much beneficial for Pakistan as separation of Pakistan from India.

•As the part of world in which East Pakistan was situated, was having limited resources, and many poor
areas of subcontinent are situated in that part, such as Bihar , Assam ,West Bengal, Burma and Bhutan.
Technically it was not in the interest of Pakistan, to keep itself attached with East Bengal(Historically one
of the most poorest area of subcontinent) .In fact Pakistan after separation saved its future from economic
burden of poverty ridden Bangladesh,

• Huge Population and scare resources of East Bengal were clear Indicators, that there will be no
extraordinary progress in future in that province and no sensible person may think that it was valuable for
Pakistan to keep itself attached with most poverty ridden part of this region.

•Being a part of East Pakistan, rulers were forcing to West Pakistani citizens to become a market of East
Pakistan’s low quality Products, such as Tea, Pans and jute on artificial high prices on the name of
Patriotism, while now such type high quality Products may be purchased from other countries on very low
prices.

•After separation of Bangladesh, it was possible for Pakistan to make its economic policies without having
any concern of interests of a far situated part.

•Pakistan Economic Managers relieved themselves from the Economic restrictions due to economic
interest of East Bengal. That situation was as much harmful, as today Pakistan start to take care of the
economic interest of Myanmar or West Bengal; it is certain that such type situation will be disastrous for
Pakistan.

•With the analysis of economic situation of present day Pakistan and Bangladesh, shows that Pakistan
GDP and Foreign currency reserves are double than that of Bangladesh and Electricity production is also 5
times more. It is obvious, that separation was much more in the interest of Pakistan, Because, the only
solution of the Disparity between two parts, was to serve the Bangladesh with the resources of West
Pakistan. Otherwise there was no other magic solution to address that disparity.

•It is still obvious that, there is still no charm in having trade links with countries of South Asia, because it
is not in the economic interest of Pakistan, instead of that we should focus on rich and developed areas
such as China, Middle East, Far East, Europe and USA.

2. Political Advantages.

•Due to extraordinary majority of Bengali Population, it was not possible for any province of West Pakistan
to become equivalent to that majority any time in future, and it was certain that representatives of
Provinces of West Pakistan will always remain in opposition in assemblies as per modern time democracy
principles, this was really a frightening situation and the People of Pakistan were going to be ruled by any
ethnocentric Bengali Leader or by any Bengali Military dictator for ever.

•Due to Bengali nationalism and ethnocentrism, on the basis of which People of Bangladesh were
victimizing the Urdu Speaking Muslim refugees from India and that is still continue, and their Ethnic
Cleansing with aborigines people of CHT, were clearly indicating that people of that area were not sincere
and aware of the Ideology of Pakistan, in fact attachment of Pakistan with East Bengal was self deception
and nothing else.

•Due to agitation style and different culture, the politicians of East Pakistan were always blaming Pakistan
for their problems and exploitations, while people of Pakistan were worried about deteriorating condition
of people of East Pakistan due to poverty and natural disasters, and they were too much fed up with that
situation as they were seeing no end of all this, as this thing was also harming the Basic Ideology of
Pakistan, and therefore to get rid of this situation and to avoid baseless allegations it was necessary to
separate that area(East Bengal) from Pakistan, and this was the main reason that West Pakistani Military
Personnel, even having capability for defending that part decided very easily and conveniently to end their
any relation with that land on the basis of the facts that they were tired of all those messy affairs.

• Due to separation of East Pakistan, Pakistan saved itself and its ideology from baseless criticism of
Bengalese Politicians, and now on real grounds they are blaming each other for their problems.
•With the separation of Bangladesh, Pakistan Islamic Ideology became more prominent with the
introduction of Islamic laws and future scenario of Pakistan became much more firmed with the conversion
of population ratio to 98 % Muslims, while with Bangladesh, presence of Huge Hindu minority was having
adverse effects on the ideological progress of the country.

3. Security Advantages:

As East Pakistan was situated in the abdomen and inside the body of India and thousand miles away from
West Pakistan, India was using this factor for blackmailing and pressurizing Pakistan from the beginning,
In fact burden of huge population of East Bengal was loaded on West Pakistan to make Pakistan a crippled
and failed state by Indian National Congress. India used that part as a button for keeping under pressure
to Pakistan in 1947, in war of 1965 and again in 1970 with policy to occupy large chunk of land in East
Pakistan. Due to 1000 miles distance between both parts and that also filled by enemy land, in such worst
scenario even maintaining contacts between security forces and their mobility was in fact a difficult,
expensive and life taking task, accompanied with wastage of huge resources, ultimately resulting in
weakening of Defense forces and economy of the country. By separation of East Bengal, Pakistan was
able to get rid of its weak point which was a most easy and favorite target of India. Due to that now
Pakistan Defense is more strong and protected as compared to vulnerable and weak position before 1971.

4. Social Advantages:

•With the separation of Bengal flow of population from densely populated Bangladesh to parts of West
Pakistan stopped, which was a good development for the culture and social set up of West Pakistan.

•Due to two national languages, Cultural evolution of the people of West Pakistan was stopped and their
local languages were dying, with the separation of Bangladesh, that process was stopped.

•After separation of Bangladesh huge jobs opportunities were raised for people of different provinces of
West Pakistan in both Federal and Provincial Governments. Due to elimination of share of people of
Bengalese in civilian Jobs, which resulted in an increase in participation of local population in the affairs of
country, by this their sense of depriving was minimized.

•People of Bengal are usually dark skinned, while people of West Pakistan were of Fair Skinned, due to
continuous flow of Bengalese from East Bengal was creating racial discomfort and fears in the mind of
local populations, that by this they will become minority in their own provinces, specially in the case when
Federal Government was encouraging Bengalese to rehabilitate in West Pakistan, By separation of East
Bengal this process of migration was also stopped.

This is the reason that after separation of East Pakistan, Mr. Mujibur Rehman was immediately released
by President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and he never expressed any regret about creation of Bangladesh.

Similarly once Prersident Zia-ul-Haq commented that freedom fighters of Bangladesh were in fact the
freedom fighters of Pakistan, Now Bangladesh is a free country and Pakistan is also a free country.

It is crystal clear from all above mentioned facts that separation from Problematic East Bengal created
new life and new freedom in Pakistan.

Written By M.Akram Khan Niazi.

Karachi,Pakistan
E.Mail :akrumniazi@hotmail.com