Answer: Because in the absence of such an understanding, the holding of the Assembly session would have become an exercise in futility a stalemate inside the House would have led to the dissolution of the Assembly itself.
Q. 4: The Chairman of the People's Party, Mr. Bhutto had confronted the Government with two alternatives-(1) postpone the National Assembly session or (2) relax the 120-day deadline for completing the constitution. Why was the first alternative chosen and not the second?
Answer: The problem before the Government was not to satisfy one political leader or another but to help create a congenial atmosphere for the framing of a constitution. Expansion in time limit in the absence of some prior understanding would have prolonged the feuding inside the House and not produced a constitution.
Q. 5: The Awami League fought the elections on the basis of the Six Points. If these points posed a threat to the integration of Pakistan, why was the A%-ami League not barred from contesting elections on the basis of the Six Points?
Answer: The Six Points, as originally claimed, were no more than a mechanism for providing the largest possible measure of autonomy to East Pakistan within the framework of a single country. Furthermore, throughout the electioneering campaign which lasted nearly a year, the Awami League leadership took pains to emphasize that their Six points were not the “word of God", that “they were open to negotiations" and that it was “mischievous" on the part of critics event to suggest that Six Point visualised anything outside the framework of Pakistan. This remained the Awami League's position right up to the polls. And accordingly it evoked statements from the West Pakistani leaders expressing their readiness to work out a formula to accommodate Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, both to evolve a constitution under the Legal Framework Order and to set up a Government.
The Legal Framework Order under which the Awami League and other political parties fought the elections clearly and unequivocally provide that the unity solidarity and integrity of Pakistan were to be built into a constitutional arrangement.
Q. 6: Mujib's Six Points were meant to end economic exploitation; if so, how would the Government remove it 2
Answer: The region called East Pakistan, had served for centuries as hinterland to Calcutta and was exploited both by the British Colonialists and the Calcutta Marwari businessmen. The backwardness of two centuries could not be undone in two decades. Even then East Pakistan, which at Independence did not have even a pucca jute baling press, now has the world's largest jute industry. Pakistan's first steel mill and the country's largest fertilizer factory and a lot more is on the way. Elaborate plans are under way to accelerate the economic development of East Pakistan
