Political Problems during early days of Partition
Political Problem
• Pakistan faced more political problems than India• India inherited government buildings, furnishing, even trained officials from British
• Pakistan had none of these
• India had officials, members of Indian National Congress with political experience to run the government, taking part in elections, running Assemblies and holding public offices
• In Pakistan, Constituent assembly consisted mainly of landlords and wealthy people with little political experience
• Muslim League had support mainly from rural areas and lacked support from urban areas
• Geographical distance between East and West Pakistan made it further big political challenge to run the country as one unit
• Half of the population of Pakistan lived in East Pakistan whereas majority of government and army leaders came from West Pakistan
• Pakistan lacked both administrative and governmental machinery to run affairs of a new country
• Pakistan had to find a capital, a functional government, trained officials to run affairs of the country in efficient manner
• Quaid e Azam was suffering from tuberculosis and he knew that his deteriorating health would allow him little time to live so he was resolved to make sure the new nation survived
• As he became 1st Governor General of Pakistan, his post was supposed to be ceremonial but he ignored this and lead from the front in taking out Pakistan from these serious problems
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