East Pakistan

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East Pakistan was a former province of Pakistan which existed between 1955 and 1971. It replaced the former province of East Bengal and occupied the area now known as Bangladesh.

Bengal was divided in 1947 upon the seperating of British India into the different countries of Pakistan and India, the eastern parts becoming East Bengal, one of the five provinces of Pakistan (the others being West Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan, and the Northwest Frontier Province).

After independence from British rule, East Bengal was ruled over and ignored by the Pakistani government, which was ruled over by the Pakistani military, which mostly belonged to West Pakistan. Growing anger led to the One-Unit Policy, implemented in 1955, which abolished the provinces. Under this policy, West Punjab, Balochistan, Sindh, and the Northwest Frontier were merged under the name of West Pakistan and East Bengal became East Pakistan.

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