>> Bangladesh picked up its share of joint pakistans liabilities in loans but pakistan robbed bangladesh by refusing to date to split the assests.
Is there any official statement from Bangladesh government what they think the total assets and liabilities in 1971? Surely they would be some Bangladeshis working in the then State Bank of Pakistan. Pakistan was not very rich county then and it is still a poor country so I do not think there was much asset left after war to split.
>>Bangladesh got rice from the west???? Was it given free???
Of course some of it was free as every government always supposed to give some fee stuff to its citizens now and then. To get the idea, just check how much Bangladesh spent in foreign currency since 1972 for rice import. Also check how much Bangladesh spent in foreign currency for cotton, sugar, salt and other food stuff import after 1972 previously it was getting in local currency from western half. I will give you hint salt was selling up to 100 Tk/kg right after independence, rice price shoot to sky so there was famine...Do you you ever wondered why?
>>Did Pakistan develop itself with Bangladesh resources..... an incontrovertible fact.... PK to date has failed to publish full data on relative contribution to the united Pakistan exchequer and expenditure by wings.....
The last time this was done was in 1948/49 i think.... after that looting began until 1970...
As I said it is pure propaganda. There was not much resources produced by east to loot. East Pakistan produced only jute which earned foreign currency that was also in decaling value. How much foreign currency since 1972 Bangladesh earned through jute export, you will get the idea??? There was not much industries in East to earn any meaningful tax revenue either and personal income tax was negligent. The industrialization in East was started by West Pakistani business families like Adamjee Jute Mills and other textile mills. The still only hydro power plant in the country built during that time and Bangladesh could not build second one yet. Except Dhaka University other major universities were built during that time.
As I told you it was only 20 years compared to 200 years under British raj, so there can not be a major economic exploitation as a state policy as done by British colonial rule ( the government was not that efficient then and not even today to create a policy and implement it successfully to get a reasonable benefit). There was not a single discriminatory rule created against East Pakistan except 1952 state language issue who was repealed immediately after opposition. If West Pakistan had force east to cultivate cotton or wheat which would only benefit West (like British forced Bengal to cultivate indigo instead of rice or forbit handlooms to benefit British textile mills.) then I would have agreed for economic exploitation.
>>I fail to see how PK supposedly want good relationship with bangladesh and continue to rob it.
Bangladesh and Pakistan is still an ocean a part. They do not need to have good relation if the do not want, Each can live with their own device. Why you spending time in a Pakistani defense forum I wonder, why even bother.
If I analyze the issue for partition of East and West wing apart from distance was more of poor governance specially military rule, lack of resources, and ethnic politics which lead to discrimination. There was some injustice done to Bengalis in jobs, language and cultural rights in the beginnings and overall dealings sure. Also the leftish mindset leanings of majority of Bengalis due to century old struggle against historic injustice served by Hindu landlords and brahman class (who left for India with creation of Muslim Pakistan) was not properly analyzed or understood by political elites of West Pakistan which some of themselves were land lords and feudal class (there is still some in Pakistan).
I am of the opinion that the civil war in 1971 and the gross violations that happened was not needed and should not have happened. West Pakistan should have left the East Bengal to its own device before that point of no return or it would have been better not even included in 1947. I sometime wonder what would have happened to East Bengal Muslim population if it was not included in Pakistan in 1947, may be same fate as rest of Muslims that left behind in India today. I also wonder if Bangladesh as they got their own nation now would ever thank Pakistan or Jinnah that they were included in Pakistan in 1947. The two nation theory of Jinnah was right as Bangladesh is its prime example. When you consider East Bengal has more linguistic, cultural and economic affinity and dependency with West Bengal and India, still just due to it being a Muslims majority even after terrible happenings of 1971 with Pakistan which it share only religion, it remains an independent country. Only for this reason I salute it for 50 years of independence and hope it remains independent for many years to come.
