Creation of Bangladesh: Myths Exploded by Junaid Ahmad

Author:Junaid Ahmad [Ahmad, Junaid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fazlee's Book Supermarket
Published: 2017-03-15T20:00:00+00:00

275 Ibid, p. 73

276Hasan Askari Rizvi, The Military State and Soceity, Macmillan, 2000, p. 125

277Khawaja Alqama, Bengali Elites Perceptions of Pakistan, Royal Book Company, 1997, p. 170

Awami League’s leaders did visit West Pakistan on occasion, but these visits were aimed at formulating a front against Punjab. Mujib’s collaborators in West Pakistan were G. M. Syed, Hyder Bakhsh Jatoi and Abdus Samad Achakzai.279He claimed that West Pakistan had been developed by East Pakistan’s resources and the six-point formula, portrayed as the ‘Magna Carta’ for the Bengalis, would turn East Pakistan into Sonar Bangla.280

Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party was the second largest party at the time. Bhutto’s enigmatic personality, his socialist ideas and his slogan of Roti, Kapra, aur Makan (food, clothing, and shelter) were the factors that contributed to the popularity of the PPP. Bhutto introduced a new angle to politics, focusing on the local issues related to industrial labour and their conflicts with the industrialists, landlord-tenant conflicts and demand from the government for the provision of shelter for the working class. The PPP also developed new means to reach its voters who were looking for a major social and economic change, even though in a provincial context.

In Punjab, to the delight of the locals, Bhutto vented his venomous rage against India. In the province of Sindh, he relied on the local power of influential personalities like Mir Rasool Bakhsh Talpur of Hyderabad, Makhdoom Talib-ul-Maula of Hala, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi of Nawabshah, Pir of Ranipur and other pirs and waderas of Sindh.281

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