contrast to the ethnic and linguistic diversity found in the West Wing, where the population consisted of four major ethnic groups--Punjabis, Pakthuns, Sindhis, and Baloch. A fifth important group consisted of the muhajirs, or the immigrants or descendants of immigrant who fled to Pakistan after the 1947 partition. In spite of the obvious differences between the two halves of Pakistan, the political leadership, especially that in the West, declared that the islamic faith and a shared fear of "Hindu India" constituted sufficient glue to hold the two Pakistans together as one nation. This prediction was not correct, and over time a culture of distrust developed between the two areas increased by imbalances in terms of representation in the government and the military. Bengali politicians also argued that the economic "underdevelopment" of East Pakistan came about because of the "internal colonialism" of the "rapacious capitalist class of West Pakistan" (Blood xxxii).
Pakistan undertook a nationwide experiment in democracy jus
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