A Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947.
This money was spent on private consumption and capital investment in WestPakistan.
2
The primary export commodities of East Bengal were vital to the economy of WestPakistan.
3
The overwhelming bulk of the bureaucracy and army was from or based in WestPakistan.
4
Is it the case that the triumphalist Indian leadership was planning to eliminate WestPakistan as well?
5
A few hundred died in WestPakistan.
6
The Pakistan army and civil bureaucracy have always enjoyed a relative autonomy from the landlords and businessmen of WestPakistan.
7
Had they done so, then WestPakistan too might have risen in arms, and that would have created a completely different situation.
8
But the country then known as East Pakistan won independence with India's help in December 1971 following a nine-month war against the then WestPakistan.
9
As I have argued, this was a simplistic and chauvinist view that ignored the structural exploitation of East Bengal by a predominantly WestPakistan-based elite.
10
In the late sixties, between 40 percent and 50 percent of WestPakistan's exports were taken by the East at monopoly prices.
11
Floods in north- westPakistan have killed at least 100 people.
12
Most of those new infections were in north- westPakistan where militants regularly targeted roving health teams.
13
Seven charity workers, six of them women, have been shot dead in north- westPakistan, police say.
14
The arrests were made after security agents made raids on several homes in north- westPakistan, the official said.
15
There are no official figures but estimates suggest more than 800 schools have been destroyed in north- westPakistan.
16
AT LEAST 13 people were killed yesterday when a suicide bomber attacked a police station in north- westPakistan.