Two different currency was not sacrosanct point.It was said than if two currency is not possible then a single currency with adequate measure to prevent drain of resource from East Pakistan to West.Sheikh Mujib was willing to do many compromise,he even finished a draft proclamation by March 24th 1971,where there was no provision of two currency.In that draft,it was clearly said,East Pakistan will not have any right to secede from the union.There was plan that After signing/approval of that proclamation by Yahya,it will be made public.For that, he waited the entire day of 25th March for a phone call from Yahya. But Yahya was busy in cantonment with other generals about the impending military assault.After long 8 hours meeting with the general,he left Dhaka secretly by ordering the army to attack on the forthcoming night.
Six point didn't forbade private investment from one wing to another.By 'prevent resource transfer' they meant ending discrimination of govt. revenue distribution,two Pakistan reserve bank branch in Karachi and Dhaka,so that East Pakistani earned foreign exchange remain in East Pakistan etc.It is ridiculous to suggest that six point will ban private investor from investing in from one region to another.Six point was a demand to the govt. not to the common people.
In the US, constituent unit like Mississippi are fully autonomous in their own internal matters.They even made their own law,which differ from one state to another.So Mississippi have no chance to blame Connecticut for the problem of Mississippi.In the United States,poorer state like Mississippi get resource as a federal transfer from the central govt.But in united Pakistan,it was the opposite.It was the poorest province East Pakistan which was subsidizing relatively wealthy West Pakistan.Now you judge.
There was no talk about two army in six point.It talked about a paramilitary militia for the defence of East Pakistan.This demand was raised due to the experience during the 1965 war,when East Pakistan was completely defenceless and cut off from the protection of bulk of the Pakistani military.In fact Sheikh Mujib formulated six point as a reaction to the East Pakistan's security situation in 1965 war.
After opeation searchlight,Pakistan became enemy of Bengali people.So enemy's enemy is friend.After declaration of independence in 26th March we became a separate country,no longer bound by the sensitivity of Pakistani ideology or norm.And West Pakistani soldier was an alien occupation force with no connection with the people of Bangladesh was doing horrible atrocity. So they didn't constituted fellow countrymen for the Bengali.If the army was 50 percent Bengali,then we could have claimed it was our army.But that was not the case.This is the main problem of Pakistan,they expected higher level of patriotism from Bengali without any participation in the state affairs.Do you think it is possible any where in the world? You should thank us that we remained in that rotten structure for long 24 years and wanted to preserve that with just participation.But West Pakistani elite were too racist to entertain the idea that Bengalis are equal to them.They wanted Bengali as a subject,not the partner of the state.So we have no option but to break that colonialist apartheid state.
