DACCA: Air Marshal Asghar Khan said today [Dec 12] that East Pakistan “must get equal share in all national affairs”. He was speaking at an Iftar party arranged at the Dhanmandi residence of the Awami League leader, Mujibur Rahman, this evening.

Prominent among those present were former Chief Minister Mr Ataur Rahman Khan, the Leader of the Opposition in the Provincial Assembly, Mr Asaduzzaman Khan, the Acting General Secretary of East Pakistan Awami League, Mr Mizanur Rahman Choudhury MNA, Mr Mahmud Ali MNA, Maulvi Farid Ahmed MNA, Mr J.A. Rahim, Acting Chief of People’s Party, Dr Azharuddin MPA and a large number of political leaders, workers and lawyers.

Referring to President Ayub’s recent remarks that huge money had been spent for the development of East Pakistan, Air Marshall Asghar Khan said: “It was a colonial approach”. He said, during the British rule “our rulers used to make frequent repetitions of what they had done for this subcontinent to convince the people that they were here in the interest of the people of this land.”

This was an “outdated colonial approach,” he said and added East Pakistan must get equal share in all national affairs — economic or political... — Agency

Published in Dawn, December 13th, 2018