Editing West Pakistan (section)

===Independence after British colonial period===
At the time of the [[Pakistan Movement|state establishment]] in 1947, the [[:Category:Leaders of the Pakistan Movement|founding fathers]] of Pakistan participated in the [[Radcliffe Line|Boundary Commission]] conference. Headed by [[Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe|Cyril Radcliffe]], the commission was tasked with negotiating the arrangement, area division, and future political set up of Pakistan and India.

Pakistan was formed from two distinct areas, separated by {{convert|1000|mi|km|order=flip|abbr=off}} of India. The western state was composed of three Governor's provinces ([[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|North-West Frontier]], [[West Punjab|West-Punjab]] and [[Sind Province (1936–1955)|Sindh Province]]), one Chief Commissioner's province ([[Baluchistan (Chief Commissioners Province)|Baluchistan Province]]), the [[Baluchistan States Union]], several other [[princely states]] (notably [[Bahawalpur State|Bahawalpur]], [[Chitral]], [[Dir (princely state)|Dir]], [[State of Hunza|Hunza]], [[Khairpur, Pakistan|Khairpur]] and [[Swat (Pakistan)|Swat]]), the Federal Capital Territory (around [[Karachi]]) and the [[FATA|tribal areas]].<ref name="Story of Pakistan, West Pakistan"/> The eastern wing of the new country – East Pakistan – formed the single province of [[East Bengal]], including the former [[Assam]] district of [[Sylhet]] and the [[Hill Tracts]].

West Pakistan experienced great problems related to the divisions, including ethnic and racial friction, lack of knowledge, and uncertainty of where to demarcate the permanent [[border]]s.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part I)">{{cite web|last=SP|title=Post Independence Problems|date=June 2003|url=http://storyofpakistan.com/post-independence-problems/|publisher=Story of Pakistan|access-date=26 October 2012}}</ref> East Pakistan, Balochistan, and the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–1955)|North-West Frontier Province]] experienced little difficulty, but [[Punjab (region)|Southern Pakistani Punjab]] faced considerable problems that had to be fixed.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part I)"/> Former [[East Punjab]] was integrated with the [[Indian Government|Indian administration]] and millions of Punjabi Muslims were expelled to be replaced by a Sikh and Hindu population and vice versa.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part II)">{{cite web|last=KHK|title=Refugees in West Pakistan |url=http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A051&Pg=2 | publisher=Story of Pakistan (Part II)|access-date=21 March 2012}}</ref> The communal violence spread to all over the [[Indian subcontinent]]. Economic rehabilitation efforts needing the attention of Pakistan's founding fathers further escalated the problems.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part II)"/>

The division also divided the [[natural resources]], [[Industrial sector|industries]], [[Infrastructure#Economic|economic infrastructure]], [[manpower]], and [[Armed forces|military might]], with India as the larger share owner.<ref name="Story of Pakistan (Part III)">{{cite web|last=SoP|title=Division of Resources |url=http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A051&Pg=3|publisher=Story of Pakistan (Part III)|access-date=21 March 2012}}</ref> India retained 345 million in population<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.populstat.info/Asia/indiac.htm | title = INDIA: historical demographical data of the whole country | first = Jan | last = Lahmeyer | year = 2003 | access-date = 20 September 2013}}</ref> (91%) to Pakistan's 35 million<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.populstat.info/Asia/pakistac.htm | title = PAKISTAN: historical demographical data of the whole country | first = Jan | last = Lahmeyer | year = 2003 | access-date = 20 September 2013 | archive-date = 24 September 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170924225810/http://www.populstat.info/Asia/pakistac.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref> (9%). Land area was divided as 78% to India and 22% to Pakistan. Military forces were divided up with a ratio of 64% for India and 36% for Pakistan.<ref name="Palgrave Macmillan (15 September 2005)">{{cite book|last=Talbot|first=Ian|title=Pakistan: A Modern History|date=15 September 2005|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan (15 September 2005)|location=United States|isbn=978-1-4039-6459-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb_0/page/448 448 pages]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/pakistanmodernhi00talb_0/page/448}}</ref> Most of the military assets – such as weapons depots and military bases – were located inside India; facilities in Pakistan were mostly obsolete, and they had a dangerously low ammunition reserve of only one week.<ref name="Palgrave Macmillan (15 September 2005)"/> Four [[Division (military)|divisions]] were raised in West Pakistan, whilst one division was raised in East Pakistan.<ref name="Palgrave Macmillan (15 September 2005)"/>