In this video, I have shown the number of Bengalis in Civil Services at the time of Indo-Pak partition and what were their numbers before East Pakistan got independence from Pakistan.
Though Punjab still had a larger share of the cake East Pakistanis were not given the crumbs. https://twitter.com/JustujuMedia/status/1276804666093735936
Though Punjab still had a larger share of the cake East Pakistanis were not given the crumbs. https://twitter.com/JustujuMedia/status/1276804666093735936
In the Jute Board of which Ayesha Jalal in her book, 'The State of Martial Law', makes so much of a fuss, all nine directors were from East Pakistan.
In the important ministries of foreign affairs, finance, education, home affairs, planning division, economic coordination...
In the important ministries of foreign affairs, finance, education, home affairs, planning division, economic coordination...
..and external assistance, East Pakistanis had either a greater number of Class 1 officers in 1971 or only marginally less than those from Punjab.