Abstract
It is ironically believed that regionalism ushered political instability in Pakistan. In contrast, the creation of Pakistan is based on the bolstered slogan of full provincial autonomy for Muslims majority areas of India. Since independence, the rift between the Centre-provinces is overwhelming over the issue of provincial autonomy. Whenever minority provinces and East Pakistan reinforced the demand of provincial autonomy, the central government tried to alter its ways from earlier set motto and used different tactics and presented schemes which ultimately created blockade by implementing final stroke of One Unit Scheme. The scheme by nature was not to pacify the controversy over political issues rather accommodated personal interests of civil-military oligarchy and established ground for them to control over political structure of Pakistan. East Pakistan and Sindh—politically conscious units—as well the NWFP—recently tasted fruits of provincial autonomy under Government of India Act, 1935—were rightly determined towards their constitutional rights but their demands were coined as parochialism/provincialism and regionalism. Available literature has discussed One Unit merely as a scheme to merge provinces of West Pakistan into single unit but behind this, the objective of praetorians was not only to control political system but deprive East Pakistan demographically and Sindh from resources, which has hardly been discussed. The objective of this paper is to find out how integrationist schemes accommodated the civil-military bureaucracy and what subsequent results were over politics of Pakistan. To analyze these objectives, primary sources including India-Pakistan-Burma Association Reports and Constituent Assembly Debates as well secondary data is being used.
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