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Mr. Abul Mansur Ahmad (16th January, 1956):................ In framing a constitution, generally speaking, two patterns are kept in view-one is federal and the other unitary type. If we have a federal type we shall have quite a different structure even to the minute's details from what we shall have if we have a unitary form of government. If we think there is one people and one country then we must have one language and one capital, and as a matter of course the capital goes to that wing where the majority of the nation lives. There cannot be any question of the capital being at Karachi and Dacca. There cannot be any question of parity between the two wings. You cannot think in those terms. The entire Pakistan is one country and its peoples are one nationality, then there cannot be any discrimination between the people of the two wings. That is the only logical conclusion. But, Sir, that will entail several natural consequences. If you proceed with one-people theory, if you proceed on the unitary-form of government basis you must have one franchise, one economy, one calendar, one language, one standard time and one capital. The capital then automatically goes to Dacca. Sir, do you want to raise and re- open this question again -Does anybody: let us have a unitary form of government and the Capital of -Pakistan shifted from Karachi to Dacca by the people's vote? Now, Sir, which will be creating new problems and more problems. In that case instead of solving problems we shall be creating problems. In fact, we have had the taste of a unitary form of government for the last eight years and you already know what consequences have followed. I repeat that this will be the natural consequence if you proceed with one-state theory, with an unitary form of government. In that case we must proceed on the basis that the only State language must be the language spoken by the majority of the people, i.e. Bengali, and Bengali alone is entitled to be the State language of Pakistan. Then why do you talk of two wings? Why do you think of parity? Why two languages? Why do you talk of the capital being here for six months and there for six months? Let us go by the vote of the people. If we go that way geography will be ignored. The people of West Wing instead of the East will be sufferers. Therefore, Sir, in consideration of these things we should not be theoreticians. The Lahore Resolution was drafted by a Divine hand-the hand that drove the pen which drafted that Resolution was really that of God. It set the fate of Pakistan. Even if Pakistan were created after the entire demands of the All-India Muslim League were conceded by the Congress and the British Government, still Pakistan would have remained divided into two widely separated parts. That was visualized in that Resolution. The leaders of Pakistan and framers of a Constitution for it were confronted with this extraordinary geographical position. For eight years the framers of the Constitution tried their utmost-and in all sincerity-to frame a Constitution. I am not one of those who will abuse our old Muslim League friends who were in charge of framing the Constitution; I shall not challenge their bona fides. I am not one of those who move about with self-satisfaction that anybody other than themselves is worthless and useless. I concede that they exhausted their genius in an effort to give the country a constitution. But why did they fail? Did they not try this method and that method-adding