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Pakistan was built upon a common religion as the ideological basis for forming a state, but the experiment foundered. The peoples of West and East Pakistan were too different for enabling this bracket to sustain natural divergencies over a geographical gap of nearly 1300 miles. The main cause for the split were the economic relations between the two parts of the state.
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Vogelsang, W. Economic prospects of Pakistan and Bangla Desh. Intereconomics 7, 248–250 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929587
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