In February, a national conference is held …
Years: 1966 - 1966
February
In February, a national conference is held in Lahore, where all the opposition parties convene to discuss their differences and their common interests.
The central issue discussed is the Tashkent Declaration, which most of the assembled politicians characterize as Ayub Khan's unnecessary capitulation to India.
More significant, perhaps, is the noticeable underrepresentation of politicians from the East Wing.
About 700 persons attend the conference, but only twenty-one are from the East Wing.
Their leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (known as Mujib) of the Awami League, presents his controversial six-point political and economic program for East Pakistani provincial autonomy.
The six points consist of the following demands: that the government be federal and parliamentary in nature, its members elected by universal adult suffrage with legislative representation on the basis of distribution of population; that the federal government have principal responsibility for foreign affairs and defense only; that each wing have its own currency and separate fiscal accounts; that taxation occur at the provincial level, with a federal government funded by constitutionally guaranteed grants; that each federal unit control its own earnings of foreign exchange; and that each unit raise its own militia or paramilitary forces.
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Years: 1966 - 1966
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