Division, Discrimination, Exploitation and Conspiracy

Division, Discrimination, Exploitation and Conspiracy: East and West Pakistan were two thousand kilometeres apart. Even the people were way apart in their looks, language, foods, clothes, culture and their heritage. The majority of the population had only one thing in common and that was religion. If a bizarre country like this was going to survive, a little bit of extra effort had to be put in, but the Pakistani rulers did not do this. During the partition West Pakistani's population was twenty million and East Pakistani's was forty million, so it would have made sense to have two people from East Pakistan for every one person in West Pakistan in everything - education, bussiness, police, government. But in reality it was just the opposite - there were eighty to ninety percent of West Pakistanis in everything. 75% of budgets was spent on West Pakistan and 25% on East Pakistan, even though 62% revenue income was from East Pakistan. Most frightening of all was the number of armed forces - West Pakistan was 25 times as many as East Pakistan!