in future for East Bengal to industrialize itself. Now this revaluation has brought the industrialization of East Bengal to a stop and there will never be any chance unless there is an upheaval and upsurge of any kind in the whole world.
Honorable Deputy Speaker: What do you propose?
Mr. Ataur Rahman Khan: I have told that these subjects should have been with he Provinces-Commerce and Industry should be in the provinces.
The Honorable Mr. M.A. Khuhro (West Pakistan Muslim): What about foreign trade?
Mr. Ataur Rahman Khan: I told about foreign trade also. I have said that there should be three subjects with the Centre-Defense, Foreign, Affairs and Currency. Now if you like you can I bring everything under Defense. If you. go on amplifying the position, Defense has got a demand on everything in the country. For instance, the anvil on which a man is mending shoes may also be requisitioned for Defense in case of war and you can say that it is required for the man in the Army. So in this way everything and all the subjects can be brought under Defense. So also with Foreign Affairs you can bring anything you like within its scope. Foreign Affairs mean the relations that exist between Pakistan and other foreign countries but if Mr. Hamidul Huq Choudhury wants to cover up everything under it, he can do so. For instance, if I write a letter in London that also can be covered by Foreign Affairs. Similarly if I have got a friend in Australia and he sends me a parcel, Mr. Hamidul.,Huq. Choudhury opens it and sees what it contains because all these matters are connected with Foreign Affairs for the reason that it has come from a foreign country and everything that is connected with any foreign country comes under Foreign Affairs. Now that is not our intention. Mr. Hamidul Huq Choudhury has been one of the authors of the 21-point programme in the year 1950 when we held that Grand National Convention in Dacca over which I had the honor to preside against the Basic Principles Committee's Report brought out by the late-lamented Liaquat Ali Khan. He was one of the sponsors and there we decided that these three subjects should be given to them in the Centre. Now Mr. Hamidul Huq Choudhury must have clearly understood every word of it and every meaning and connotation of it. He cannot now say that Defense, Foreign Affairs and Currency include all these things. I will give instances and show how people have been bluffed and things from heaven to earth can be taken there in the name of a particular subject. Sir, if Mr. Hamidul Huq Choudhury remains the Foreign Affairs Minister, he can bring all these things there. He can gather up everything under Foreign Affairs. But, Sir, if I happen to become the Foreign Minister, I may hold that these things are not Foreign Affairs. They can be safely dealt with by the Provinces. The Foreign Trade and Foreign Exchange can be controlled by the State Bank of Pakistan, having two State Banks in two places-one in Dacca and Lahore and the Federal Bank having its headquarters in Karachi. This can be provided in the Constitution. There would be no difficulty about it.
Now, Sir, it is said that in the economic field something has been done to East Bengal, It is said that, the National Finance Commission has been established as a panacea, for all the injustices done to East Bengal in all the departments. Sir, the Ministries and other things have been there before also, but they would not rectify the
