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...behind the impending split is Sheik Mujibur ("Mujib") Rahman, the unchallenged political leader of the more populous, poverty-stricken, eastern segment. "Pakistan, as it stands today, is finished," Mujib told TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin in Dacca last week. "There is no longer any hope of a settlement." He urged that East and West Pakistan adopt separate constitutions, and that his followers refuse to pay taxes to the central government, which is situated in the West. He seemed on the brink of an outright declaration of independence for what he calls Bangla Desh (Bengal State), which would become the world...
Last December he held elections for a Constituent Assembly that would draft a new constitution-Pakistan's fourth since 1947. Yahya thought Sheik Mujib and his restive Awami League would win perhaps 60% of the East's allotment of 169 seats in the 313-seat Constituent Assembly. The remaining East Pakistan delegates, Yahya figured, would align themselves with West Pakistani parties and prevent Mujib from winning majority control over the entire country. But in a stunning victory that amounted to a vote for wide-ranging autonomy, if not outright independence. Mujib's Awami League...
Strengthened by the mandate, Mujib pressed a six-point program demanding that East Pakistan handle its own taxation, foreign trade and foreign aid, thereby bringing an end to the West's longtime dominance. Mujib accuses West Pakistan, with 58 million people, of taking 70% of the nation's foreign aid and 70% of its imports, and of monopolizing 85% of the central bureaucracy and 90% of the army. By contrast, the more populous East Pakistan, with 72 million people, remains one of the world's most densely populated regions...
...Pledge of Purbodesh. The big man at the constitutional convention will be "Mujib" Rahman, whose Awami League captured all but two of the 153 seats contested in East Pakistan. Seven East Pakistan seats reserved for women and nine more seats in the cyclone-ravaged coastal areas will be decided in a few weeks. The Awami League is virtually certain to win all 16, pushing its total in the projected National Assembly to a commanding...
What forced Ayub to hasten his departure more than anything else was a challenge from East Pakistan's popular Sheik Mujibur Rahman. The impatient "Mujib" threatened to carry to the National Assembly his demands for purbodesh, a kind of associate statehood, for East Pakistan's Bengalis, which would seriously weaken the central government in Rawalpindi. If Mujib's East Pakistanis had their way, Ayub feared, what would prevent similar demands in West Pakistan that the province be carved up into four separate states? Aware for the first time that he might lose control of his once rubber...