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West Pakistan.......................... I shall refer you to a statistical bulletin published by the Central Government-not the East Bengal Government because when my honorable friend Mr. Abdul Rahman Khan was referring to a Statistical Bulletin of East Bengal there was laughter on the other side as if East Bengal Government is not a Government at all. Sir, I am this time confronting them with the Statistical Bulletin, Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Central Statistical Office. April 1955, Vol. 3, No. IV, published by the Manager of Publication, Karachi

 In today's report it has come out that the Muslim League Party has agreed that for the time being Karachi City will remain to be centrally administered but other parts will be merged in West Pakistan.

 Mr. Speaker: Honorable Member is not entitled to refer to any newspaper reports in this House.

 Mr. Abul Mansur Ahmad: All right. I will not refer to it. Sir, what is Karachi City? We are concerned with the Province of Karachi, Chief Commissioner's Province of Karachi. We are not concerned with the Karachi City. We are not concerned with some buildings here or there. We are concerned with the factories, mills, workshops, ammunition factories, etc that have grown up around Karachi during these eight I am referring to pages 361, 434, 453 and 454. I have typed these pages for anybody's consultation. East Pakistan has during these four years earned 312 crores in the shape of foreign exchange, whereas West Pakistan has earned only 295 crores. This is the figure which was given by my friend Mr. Abdur Rahman. It may appear that the difference is not very wide. Difference between 312 crores and 295 crores is only 17 crores. That is not all ........ Sir, what is shocking is that East Bengal was allowed to spend 163 crores whereas West Pakistan spend 468 crores........... The entire wealth of East Pakistan is controlled from Karachi. Imports of Commodities, Consumers' articles are ordered from Karachi. The part of East Pakistan representatives that this integration was a counterblast against East Pakistani numerical Superiority.

 Sir, I would have been very glad, in fact I was glad to believe in the sincerity of most of the leaders of West Pakistan, that there is no attempt at counterblast. We never said that it was a counterblast. But, Sir, when Mian Mumtaz Daultana uncalled for says that it is not a counterblast it reminds me of a Bengali Proverb:

Thakur Gharey Kay? Ami Kala Khai Na.

 An Honorable Member: Please translate

 Mr. Abul Mansur Ahmad: I would translate it for the benefit of my non Bengali brothers but, Sir, I would remind you that Mr. Mumtaz Daultana refused to translate an Urdu Poem for our benefit.

 The English translation is this: There was someone inside the temple; the priest or someone asked: “Who is there?” The person inside replied, “I do not eat bananas.” Sir, as in his story, it gives rise to suspicion in our minds that when Mian Mumtaz Daultana says that it is not a counterblast it reminds me today of that banana-eater and I feel that it must