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FAREWELL MESSAGE TO EAST PAKISTAN
Broadcast Speech from Radio Pakistan, Dacca on
28th March, 1948
During the past nine days that I have spent in your province, I have been studying your local conditions and some of the problems that confront East Bengal. Tonight, on the eve of my departure, I want to place before you some of my impressions. Before I do this, however, let me first cordially thank you for the great warmth and affection with which you have received me everywhere in your midst during my stay here.
From the administrative point of view, East Bengal perhaps more than any other province of Pakistan, has had to face the most difficult problems as a result of Partition. Before August 15, it existed merely as an hinterland to Calcutta, to whose prosperity it greatly contributed but which it did not share. On August 15, Dacca was merely mofussil town, having none of the complex facilities and amenities which are essential for the capital of a modern Government. Further, owing to Partition, the province's transport system had been thrown completely out of gear and the administrative machinery seriously disorganized at a time when the country was threatened with a serious food shortage. The new province of East Bengal thus came into being in the most unfavorable circumstances which might easily have proved fatal to a less determined and less tenacious people. That the administration not only survived but even emerged stronger from such setbacks as the Chittagong cyclone, is a striking tribute both to the sterling character of the people as well as to the unremitting zeal of the Government of the province. The position now is that the initial difficulties have to a great extent been overcome and, though there is no ground for complacency, there are at least reasons for quite confidence in the future. Though now undeveloped, East Bengal possesses vast potentialities of raw materials and hydro-electric power. In Chittagong you have the makings of a first-class port which in time should rank among the finest ports in the world. Given peaceful conditions and the fullest co-operation from all sections of the people, we shall make this province the most prosperous in Pakistan.
It is a matter for congratulation that despite the massacre and persecution of Muslims in the Indian Dominion in the months immediately following Partition, peaceful conditions have throughout prevailed in this province, and I have seen the minority community going about its normal day-to-day avocation in perfect security. Some migration of Hindus to the Indian Dominion there unfortunately has been, though the estimates mentioned in the Indian Press are ridiculous. I am satisfied, at any rate, that whatever movement there has been, has not in any way been due to their treatment here,
