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 In the meantime i had thought it would be useful to strengthen the team of experts by the addition of economists. Dr. Anisur Rahman who was then professor of economics at Islamabad, was invited to join the teamin Lahore .He together with professor Wahidul Haque, who was also in Islamabad and Dr. Muzaffar Ahmed chowdhury, who had arrived from Dacca, joined the team on the following day.


 Following the deadlock in the subcommittee, the Punjabi leaders, including Maulana Maudoodi, Mumtaz Daulatana and Chaudhury Muhammad Ali, came to Sheik Mujib's room in the evening on march 8, and passed that the ‘six-point' autonomy demand should not from part of the common charter of demands. Sheik Mujib was firm on the point that he and his party could not join the round table conference unless they could pass their demand for regional autonomy on the basis of the Six-Point formula. when some of the Punjabi leaders argued that the Six-Point scheme was unworkable, Sheikh Mujib said that he had brought with him experts who could sit with any experts which they (the Punjabi leaders) might nominate to discuss in detail the implications of the Six-Point formula. It was at that point that we sent for. A brief discussion was held between Chaudhir Muhammad Ali and some of Sheikh Mujib's experts. Chaudhri Mahammad Ali struck a posture that these issues were “too complex” for him and said that their said was not “lucky enough” to have to many experts.


 A point of crisis was reached when the unyielding Punjabi leaders, adamant in their refusal to include the Six-Points autonomy formula in the common charter of demand, were confronted with an uncompromising Sheikh Mujib, who indicate that unless the Six-Point were included, he would return to Dacca the following morning instead of proceeding to Rawalpindi for the Round Table Conference. The Pathan and Baluchi leaders were prepared to support inclusion of the Six-Point demand and appreciated the Bengali support which was being extended to their demand for dissolution of one unit. There was intense discussion through the evening of March 8 with Air marshal Asghar khan, acting as a go between. Finally a compromise formula was evolved, under which the committee as a whole would present a minimum common charter of demands, leaving each party represent on committee free to press its own separate demands. Thus Sheikh Mujib and the Awami League would be able to present their demands before the Round Table Conference. It was on this basis that Sheikh Mujib agreed to attend the Round Table Conference.


 Sheikh Mujib left for Rawalpindi on March 9by road, and after instructing us to prepare a comprehensive statement elaborating the demand for regional autonomy on the basis of Six-Point. Throughout the day, work continued on the draft, which was taken to Rawalpindi on the evening of March 9. in this statement Sheikh Mujib while supporting the common demand for establishment of a federal parliamentary democracy and direct election on the basis of the basis of universal adult franchise, put forward the demand for regional autonomy as defined in the six point formula. In this statement each of the six points were defined with precision and elaborated on the basis of basis of the formulations which had been made by the expert working group. Support was expressed for dismemberment of One Unit and it was urged that the representation in the federal legislature should be on the basis of population-one vote. As a demonstration of Awami League's