NO partnership

The  equal partnership was missing in west and east pakistan. The West Pakistani leadership would never accept to do equal patnership with East pakistan.  Bengali sensitivity about the "colonialism" of West Pakistan is grounded on four major points of discontent. They are: denial of their full role in the decision-making process; denial for many years of a national status for the Bengali language;the absurd denigration of the piety of the Muslims in the cast wing by those in the west; and the economic disparities which amounted to strangulation.  In the eight and a half years it took to write Pakistan's first constitution there was an unceasing effort by the West Pakistani leaders to demolish the superior poli- tical influence of the numerically larger masses in East Bengal by reducing their representation in the central legislature