Dawn
21st March 1966
ONLY Strong PAKISTAN CAN SURVIVE
Lundkhaur opposes Mujib’s 6-point plan
(From Dawn Staff Correspondent)
PESHAWAR, March 20: The six-point plan of some Awami League leaders of East Pakistan would disintegrate Pakistan. This was stated by Khan Ghulam Mohammad Khan Lundkhaur General Secretary of the West Pakistan Awami League.
Addressing a Press conferenced here this afternoon, Mr Lundkhaur said he had been to East Pakistan and had prolonged discussions with the leaders of this move. He told them that in case their programme materialised East Pakistan would not do better than a slave of oppressive Hindu India because East Pakistan cannot survive as an independent state while West Pakistan would also be most adversely hit and may not be in a position to check any aggression such as was committed against Pakistan in September last.
He said a number of leading East Pakistanis do not see eye to eye with this programme but they are convinced that “all disparities between West and East Wings should be removed forthwith”.
Mr. Lundkhaur pleaded that transfer of railways – and communications to the Provinces was not a good policy and efforts should be made to return these subjects to the Centre. He added a very strong Centre was essential for a strong Pakistan in view of Pakistan being surrounded by the country which has remained hostile to Pakistan since its birth.
APP adds:
Mr. Lundkhaur said the six-point programme of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman also included a proposal which takes away the power of taxation from the Central Government.
“How would the Central Government run without, having powers to levy taxes to meet its expenditure, he asked.
Khan Ghulam Mohammad Khan, who is also President of the Anjuman-i-Haque-i-Zamindaran, said that the cane-growers in the Peshawar and Mardan district were faced with great hardships because sugar mill owners were withoulding the payment of their purchases on the plea that the Government had failed to make payments for the stocks purchased.
He said the mill owners have also alleged that the Government has failed to lift its quota of sugar from the mills.
He demanded that the Government should intervene in the matter to help the growers.
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