Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civil war that began in late March continues to rage in East Pakistan, renamed Bangla Desh by the rebels. Using modern weaponry, much of it American supplied, the West Pakistani army and air force rain death on Bangla Death guerrillas and non-combatents alike. Accurate casualty figures are impossible to come by, but informed sources place the death toll at close to 500,000. Nine million refuges have fled across the border to India, while the number of homeless within Bangla Desh is astronomical but impossible to ascertain. As the food supply runs out in Bangla Desh, the increasing prospects...
...current situation in Pakistan represents a complete reversal of affairs to some observers of the Pakistani scene, for a few short years ago, Pakistan was being extolled as the prototype of a poor nation proceeding steadily along the road to development. According to Gustave F. Papanek, former director of the Development Advisory Service (DAS) of the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and a participant in determining strategies for Pakistan's development, "the record (in Pakistan) so far is well worth examining for clues on how really poor countries can develop...
...regions) was 85 per cent of Western income in 1951-52. By 1967-68, that figure had dropped sharply to 62 per cent. An explanation for these seemingly contradictory statistics--a rise in GNP unaccompanied by any reduction of misery for the vast majority of the Pakistani people--can be found in an examination of the development strategy used in Pakistan...
That no real benefits from the elitist route to development ever accrued to most Pakistanis can easily be demonstrated by examining both the statistics on inequality cited previously and the recent history of Pakistan. The tiny class of super-rich preferred to consume conspicuously rather than invest their windfall profits. (Luxury housing accounts for about 10 per cent of measured private investment.) The growth of this economic oligarchy was complemented by the concurrent growth of a powerful military dictatorship, centralized in West Pakistan and supplied with American arms. After the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War, the economic-military elite grew increasingly...
Yahya and Co. feared that Mujib's ascendancy would mean far greater autonomy for the long-exploited East Pakistanis, and the Pakistani army ruthlessly moved to crush the Bengali movement...