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be a counterblast. Therefore, Sir, it is a counterblast. Sir, I submitted yesterday that this is against all sense of faimess, all sense of fair play, all sense of justice, that a convention which was allowed to grow around the practice of filling the two highest positions in the State from two religions has been broken. All this has been given a good-bye by this recent act-unjust, unfair, improper and undemocratic act-which has given rise again to that suspicion which all patriotic Pakistani Citizens want to eliminate and remove from the minds of all concerned..........

 Sir, it has been contended by the other side that Karachi has been built from the wealth of West Pakistan. I shall not refer in this connection to the bulletin published by the East Bengal Government which appears to have been ridiculed by my friends opposite. Therefore, with your Permission, I condemned this book published by Central Government to my friends on the other side which will show that out of 312 crores of Foreign Exchange earned by East Pakistan, East Pakistan was allowed to spend only 163 crores, the balance was brought to the credit of West Pakistan and spent here, and this has continued for four years.........

 Sir, in considering the case of Karachi, we should not only consider the money spent and money earned. But, Sir, we should take into consideration that while we partitioned ourselves away from India we had practically no Muslim Industrialists; industrialists used to be Hindus. Muslims were only tradesmen or businessmen. These pepple came to Karachi:' they assembled at Karachi, began business as tradesmen and earned profit, not only 6 or 25 % but 300, 400 or 500 percent in the beginning or three or four years, i.e., 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950. These profits were earned by black marketing and otherwise and they became big capitalists and with that capital they have erected mills-Cotton Mills, Jute Mills-near and around Karachi. Where did this profit of 500 percent come from? This evidently came from the consumers, and, Sir, where are those consumers? They are mostly East Pakistanis. Not only this, Sir, but our foreign exchange earnings were spent on the imports of foreign consumer goods, meant certainly also for East Pakistan. But you know, Sir, all such imports were brought in Karachi at the first instance and then they were re-exported to Chittagong and for this terrible state of affairs I will refer you to page 434 of this bulletin. It shows that during one period alone 18 lakhs and 12 thousand tons of goods were exported from Karachi to Chittagong and from Chittagong to Karachi only 2 lakhs 55 thousands were exported leaving a margin of 16 lakhs. What, Sir, will you think those commodities were? 16 lakh tons of articles exported from Karachi to Chittagong, were they manufactured articles, or were they salts? No Sir, we have eaten salt at Rs. 16 per seer in East Pakistan. You remember it well. Thanks to those in authority now who were also then in power. What I want to point out is this that these were the consumer goods which were imported from foreign countries for the benefit of the people of Pakistan, both East and West but they were at the first instance brought to Karachi because the dealers and, the permit holders here all known to the officials of Government. You must remember, Sir that on the eve of our departure from Dacca for Karachi the other day on the 22nd of last month, we purchased Scissors Cigarettes at 71/2 annas at Dacca whereas it was selling at Karachi at 51/2 annas. This is the difference in price of commodities in two wings of Pakistan...... Then Sir, I would cite you another instance of most essential articles, such as medicines: Scots