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 Mr. DORFMAN. Very little information.

 Mr. GALLAGHER. Is not one of the real problems now that the channels of distribution are disrupted?

 Mr. DORFMAN. I believe the autonomous regime does have something like a government structure in large areas of the India border regions.

 Mr. GALLAGHER. Do you think it would be feasible for the United States to deal with East Pakistan?

 Mr. DORFMAN. Not officially.

 Mr. GALLAGHER. But if we deal directly with them, would we not be doing the opposite of what you feel should happen in a political accommodation between both?

 Mr. DORFMAN. I would not deal directly with them, no.

 Mr. GALLAGHER. If there were a real separation, do you feel, with its limitations of resources that it would be economically possible for East Pakistan or Bangladesh to survive economically?

 Mr. DORFMAN. I am engaged in studies of the economic future of East Pakistan right now. You must understand that their affiliation with West Pakistan has not helped make them a viable country in the past. On the contrary, they have been probably contributing capital to West Pakistan. So they would be better off than they are now. Whether they are viable or not is another matter.

 In my testimony, I said they are a mistake, and in a sense they are. How that country can support so many people is very hard to conceive. But separation in the form of either an autonomous economy or a legal separation would do no harm.

 Mr. GALLAGHER. Mr. Bingham?

 Mr. BINGHAM. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You have actually covered most of the questions I had in mind. But I do have one other question.

 You mentioned that if the unity is to continue, a political settlement had to be arrived at between East and West Pakistan; that West Pakistan should discontinue an economic policy in East Pakistan that works in favor of West Pakistan and not in the interest of East Pakistan. Would you develop that a little further? What are the specific things that illustrate this point?

 Mr. DORFMAN. One of the specific types of measure I mentioned in my prepared statement is the allocation of both public and private investment in Pakistan, which up to the present has been controlled in West Pakistan by the central government. That certainly should be decentralized so that a reasonable allocation of foreign recourses is made to East Pakistan and the administration is done by the Government of East Pakistan, either independently or as a component of the whole Pakistani Government.

 The licensing procedures now are centralized 1,000 air miles and at the moment 3,000 air miles from East Pakistan. The structure of tariffs and subsidies which, again, is part of