There is no similarity between two programs, why Megal sees no difference?
Six Point program of Sheikh Mujib was superb and according to 1940 Pakistan’s Resolution, presented during regime of General Ayub Khan, who crushed this program by installing false Agar Tala case against Sheikh Mujib. This ultimately paved way to breakup of Quaid’s Pakistan in 1971. This program was key to united and prosper democratic Pakistan but then General believed in slavery continued oppression of Bengalis since partition.
Otherwise Baluchistan’s leader grievances are very severe, may cause another breakup of the country.
Six Points Program of Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal of Baluchistan:
According to the six-point charter presented in the Supreme Court by Akhtar Mengal on Thursday, all covert and overt military operations against Baloch people should be ended immediately; all missing persons should be procured before a court of law; all proxy death squads operating in a manner like Al Shams and Al Badar operated (in Bangladesh) allegedly under the supervision of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) should be disbanded; Baloch political parties should be allowed to function and resume their political activities without any interference from intelligence agencies; persons responsible for inhuman torture, killing and dumping of bodies of Baloch political leaders and activists should be brought to justice; and measures should be initiated for rehabilitation of thousands of displaced Baloch living in appalling condition.
(First introduced on February 5, 1966 also set as the manifesto of Awami League in Pakistan General Election 1970)
The Constitution should provide for a federation of Pakistan in its true sense on the basis of the Lahore resolution, and parliamentary form of government with supremacy of legislature directly elected on the basis of universal adult franchise.
Federal government shall deal with only two subjects Defense and foreign affairs, and all other residuary subjects shall vest in the federating states.
Two separate but freely convertible currencies in two wings may be introduced, or one currency for the whole country may be maintained. In this case, effective constitutional provisions are to be made to stop flight of capital from east to West Pakistan. Separate banking service is to be made and separate fiscal and monitory policy to be adopted for east and West Pakistan.
The power of taxation and revenue collection shall vest in the federating unit and that the federal centre will have no such power. The federation will have a share in the state taxes for meeting required expenditures. The consolidated federal fund shall come out of a levy of certain percent of all state taxes.
There shall be two separate accounts for foreign exchange earnings in two wings. Earnings of East Pakistan shall be controlled of East Pakistan Government and that of West Pakistan under the control of West Pakistan Government. Foreign exchange requirement of the federal Government shall be made by the two wings either equally or in a ratio to be fixed. Indigenous products shall move free of duty between two wings. The constitution shall empower the unit governments to establish trade and commercial relations with, set up trade missions in and enter into agreement with foreign countries.
Federating units must be empowered to raise their own militia or Para military force freely for enhancing the regional and national defense effectively.
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The way establishment reacted to those six points, and the current statements that are coming from those quarters don't seem much different. I don't think much would change as its very difficult for them to change the habits they have acquired during the past 60 odd years.
the situation of balochistan and Bangladesh is very different, for any meaningful resolution, we will have to solve the missing person issue, and punish those elements who have been carrying out extra judicial killings plus the killers of bugti will have to brought to the book. The disparity in treatment to balochistan will have to be removed.
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Megal should have asked CJ, why he was still siting on missing person's case? CJ is giving 'oot patang' and retard decisions on Baluchistan behaving like CM or Governor of Baluchistan.
Six point program of Sheikh Mujib is still applicable to safe guard the rights of people of Baluchistan in particular and rights of people in general for other provinces. If IK wants to be PM of Pakistan, his agenda and vision should be based on these six points. Change in statusquo is inevitable. Any party following this will be guaranteed winning in the elections if ISI and military do not interfere.
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There is no similarity between two programs, why Megal sees no difference?
I think he referenced Sheikh Mojib's six points for highlighting the political significance of his own. Otherwse, as you mentioned, there is no similarity between Sheikh Mojib's and his six points.
Though we aren't discussion Sheikh Mojib's six points, I always felt that the points of separate currency, militia and foreign reserves accounts should not have been in his demand list.
Mengal's six points, however, are fully justified and doable.
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I think he referenced Sheikh Mojib's six points for highlighting the political significance of his own. Otherwse, as you mentioned, there is no similarity between Sheikh Mojib's and his six points.
Though we aren't discussion Sheikh Mojib's six points, I always felt that the points of separate currency, militia and foreign reserves accounts should not have been in his demand list.
Mengal's six points, however, are fully justified and doable.
The problem being that no one seriously discussed Mujeebs six points (he was declared a traitor). In any meaningful discussion I believe a few items could have been changed, that's what politics is all about. But sadly our generals believe in only one thing "danda". Same would be the fate of Mengal's six points.
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Agartala conspiracy was real as hasina wajed had admitted to it some years back. I just thought that I should throw it out there.
PS It is ironic that ayub khan gets the blame, when he was decent enough to get out of power even if he gave it to yahya, instead of bhutto who boycotted the national assembly session for 25th of march in lieu of his demands and that he would break anyone (PPP members' legs?) who would attend the assembly session.
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Agartala conspiracy was real as hasina wajed had admitted to it some years back. I just thought that I should throw it out there.
PS It is ironic that ayub khan gets the blame, when he was decent enough to get out of power even if he gave it to yahya, instead of bhutto who boycotted the national assembly session for 25th of march in lieu of his demands and that he would break anyone (PPP members' legs?) who would attend the assembly session.
Link what you are saying. Six Point program of SM was not for breaking Pakistan but asking for rights of Bengalis which were usurped since partition.
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Link what you are saying. Six Point program of SM was not for breaking Pakistan but asking for rights of Bengalis which were usurped since partition.
It was as good as breaking Pakistan, which eventually happened. Having said that, I believe SM should have been fully engaged without any prejudice and politicial course should have been taken instead of terming him a traitor.
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It was as good as breaking Pakistan, which eventually happened. Having said that, I believe SM should have been fully engaged without any prejudice and politicial course should have been taken instead of terming him a traitor.
No it is not. Read the six points again and read the 1940 resolution inscribed in Minar-e-Pakistan Lahore. These points were based on 1940 resolution of Pakistan. If this you think is as good as breaking of Pakistan then there was no justification of creating Pakistan on the basis of 1940 resolution.
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Lahore Resolution did not envisage a federation which contrasted with other federations in the world. While it emphasized greater autonomy for provinces, it did not set any provision for separate militias and currencies for the federating units. If you give Sheikh Mojib his six points, he is just two things short of an independent country — a different name and a different flag.
I am fully in favour of strong provinces but not in favour of a week Centre. I am also in favour of provinces managing their resources, but I am not in favour of separate currencies. And if provinces want the Centre to manage defence, why on earth they want separate security apparatus?
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^^ I could see the issue of a separate military or militia since E. Pakistan was almost left defenceless in 1965 with the british notion that bengal would have to be defended from the west (india). Whether or not we can agree on that bengalis are a martial race or not, West Pakistan could not defend East Pakistan from india's west as it also panned out in 1971.
I think that the currency was said to be interchangeable, but yeah we never found out what negotiations would have produced in the assembly where even pro-pak bengali pressure might have come on mujeeb if a NA session had taken place. E. Pakistan wasn't some hawaii of West pakistan, but had a bigger population and gave revenue to West Pakistan even if we were bigger and more diverse in the West and would have eclipsed bangladesh be it by exploiting our mineral resources and "pipelanistan".
As for me, I think that we would have gotten a Senate to equalize things as part of #1. For #5, I could see a scenario where we could have played both sides (E. Pakistan had socialist / communist tendencies). Since they were going to be a separate country of sorts (E. Pakistan if you look at the name) then I wouldn't mind them establishing trade relationships with other countries as don't we trade with america even when they are droning us? I think what AL probably wanted was more trade with India since bangladesh is pretty much surrounded by india unlike W. Pakistan which could choose to ignore india back then.
Original resolution was more like confederation rather than what you are suggesting. Bengalis wanted separate security apparatus as there was no regular army to safe guard the eastern borders in former East Pakistan. More over SM suggested six point program and he later agreed to shun with separate currency. He could have pursued to be more flexible after safe guarding the rights of Bengalis. Dictators considered it as mutiny against Pakistan and resort to even more persecution violating further the human rights.
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The irony that we had in 1971 was that the army was not willing to talk to the 'traitors' and decided to use danda against them. The population of Bangladesh was about 55 percent of the whole country's population. The population of Bangladesh in 1971 was 5 crore, suppose even if 10 percent were supporting mujeeb it becomes impossible for any army to take up 5 million people considering that there is no land connection between the two countries as well. Other than separate currency and foreign currency reserves, I don't think there was anything wrong in his six points.
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...He could have pursued to be more flexible after safe guarding the rights of Bengalis. Dictators considered it as mutiny against Pakistan and resort to even more persecution violating further the human rights.
I agree with you that he could have been pursued to drop controvercial points and I am sure something might have come out of political maneuvering, but instead he was projected as a traitor.
As far as the question of a parallel security system is concerned, he should have asked for constitutional guarantees for a rightful representation of eastern Pakistanis in the security forces of the country.
But the thing is that dialogues were never held with sincerity and instead of winning hearts, they chose to conquering them.
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But was bhutto willing to share power i.e. sit in opposition? AL had a clear majority by themselves and I don't think NAP in KP / balochistan was very fond of bhutto (one of the reasons he launched an operation in balochistan later) so there you have a more than simple majority in the assembly. Army should have stayed out and let the true face of bhutto show though bhutto could have done a lot of agitation in punjab and sindh through his jiyalas.