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26th August, 1995

Mian Mumtaz Mohammad Khan Daultana (Punjab: Muslim)........... Now, Sir, there is another argument which I really hesitate to deal with; it is a perverse and malicious argument; it is an argument that the integration of West Pakistan is a counterblast against Bengal. Now, Sir I think it was some vague realization, some confused apprehension of some such fear that gave rise to the curious argument presented by my dear friend, Mr. Fazlur Rahman. Mr. Fazlur Rahman's mathematics is. in fact, a type of mathematics which I have not learnt in my school. He said that if you want unity in Pakistan, you can have it through one Pakistan, that is, through Unitary government or you can equally well have it through a Pakistan divided in eleven Units, but if you only have two parts, then Pakistan is demolished, disrupted, broken up. Sir. this is something which I cannot really understand. But I think at the back of his mind was some fear like this: Bengal is one united province; now by consolidating West Pakistan in one Province, is there some design, some desire to fight out battles, to grapple issues by marshalling one united unit against another already united unit. Sir, if you begin to think in these terms, there is no end to it. But I can tell you, Sir, that in all honesty T view the establishment of one Unit, amongst other things, as a deliberate attempt to meet the national demand of Bengal for Provincial autonomy. It has its other advantages but to a political man, to the members of this Constituent Assembly, particularly, perhaps one of the advantages that will most clearly present itself, perhaps the most happy consumption of all will be that it will provide a solution which will enable us to form a Constitution, strictly in accord with the demands and wishes of the people of Bengal. Then, Sir, our Bengal members must realize that the prosperity of a part is the prosperity of the whole. If a part withers away, if a part falls into internecine turmoil, if a part lives in conflict, if a part ultimately succumbs to disorder, confusion and decay, then the effect of that will also have its consequences for the solidarity and strength of Bengal. I assure you Sir, that if the integration of West Pakistan will make the people of West Pakistan more prosperous, if it will make as more capable of developing our resources, of responding to our potentialities, then the wealth gained, the strength achieved will really be the wealth and strength of Bengal. I assure my Bengali brothers that all of us when we think in political terms, we think in terms that completely include them as part and parcel of ourselves. In fact, I think that we who live in West Pakistan may not be able to see things with the same clear vision, we may not be able to rise so completely above provincial, parochial and racial jealousies, and in fact, we look to the people of Bengal who can show that larger vision which comes from grappling a problem sym-pathetically from a distance and I am sure that very soon, in this spirit the integration of West Pakistan will become as much a national slogan for the people of Bengal as it is for the people of West Pakistan.