392 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিল : চতুর্থ খন্ড under valuation of foreign exchange in terms of Pakistan's domestic currency, the total transfer from East Pakistan to West Pakistan Over the period 1948/49-1969/70 was Rs. 31 billion (about US $ 6 million). Pakistan's economic policies have been harmful to East Pakistan. The economic exploitation of East Pakistan has been facilitated by West Pakistani dominance of the Central government. The military regime in Pakistan has existed since 1958, and decision making authority rests with a well-entrenched civil service and their military bosses. All senior military members of the administration have been West Pakistani and of the Senior members of the administration in the Central Civil Services, 87% were West Pakistani in 1960 and the proportion has not changed much since. The Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission and the Central Finance Minister and the Finance Secretary, key individuals in resource allocation, have always been West Pakistanis. Pakistan has about 50 diplomatic missions abroad, of which only five are headed by Bengalis. The seat of the Central Government is in West Pakistan. This has encouraged the concentration of industry and entrepreneurial class in West Pakistan. In all fields-agriculture, industry, transport and communications system, power supply, education facilities, health services, social welfare, employment, training and insurance-disparity between the two wings has been glaring. Big projects involving huge amount of money in respect of West Pakistan planned, financed and implemented with utmost speed. But in the case of East Pakistan even small development scheme involving small amount of money requires much time for planning and approval, and many years for implementation. Flood and cyclone is a regular feature in East Pakistan and claims many lives every year and causes heavy damage to property and crops. But until now no concrete flood control projects had been undertaken by the Central Government. Of the revenue budget about 60% expenditure is allocated to defense Invisible expenditure on defense is considerable. But almost all the defense expenditure go to West Pakistan. V. Demand for Autonomy for East Pakistan. The history of economic exploitation and political domination of East Pakistan by West Pakistan led naturally to increasing demands for provincial autonomy, spearheaded by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League. Awami League's six-point programme for autonomy sought to transfer control over foreign trade, foreign aid allocation and taxation powers to the provinces so that no province could be dominated through disproportionate control of the Central government's power over resource allocation. The famous six-points of Awami League are as follows: (i) Establishment of a federation on the basis of the Lahore Resolution and the Parliamentary, framework of Government with supremacy of Legislature directly elected on the basis of adult franchise. (ii) Federal Government shall deal with only two subjects, that is defense and foreign affairs, and all other residuary subjects should rest in the federating states. (iii)There should be either two separate but freely convertible currencies for the two wings or one currency for the whole country provided that effective
