Editing West Pakistan (section)

===Dissolution in 1970===
{{Main|1970 Pakistani general election|Six point movement|Legal Framework Order, 1970}}
On contrary perception, the provinces did not benefit from economic progress, but the One Unit program strengthened the central government.<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 6 August 2002">{{cite news|last=Shahid Javed Burki|title=Those eventful years|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2002/08/06/op.htm|access-date=25 March 2012|newspaper=Dawn Newspapers|date=6 August 2002}}</ref> In West Pakistan, the four provinces also struggled hard for the abolition of One Unit which caused injustices to them as it was imposed on them.<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 31 December 2005">{{cite news|last=Editorial|title=Punjab vs other provinces|url=http://archives.dawn.com/2005/12/31/letted.htm|access-date=25 March 2012|newspaper=Dawn Newspapers|date=31 December 2005}}</ref>

The provisional powerful committees pressured the central government through the means of civil disobedience, violence on street, raising slogans against the martial law, and attacks on government machines such as police forces.<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 6 August 2002"/><ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 31 December 2005"/> For several weeks, the four provinces worked together and guided the "One Unit Dissolution Committee", towards resolving all outstanding issues in time set by the Yahya government.<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 6 August 2002"/><ref name=Akbar>{{cite book | title = Pakistan from Jinnah to Sharif | last = Akbar | first = M.K. | publisher = Mittal Publications | location = New Delhi, India | year = 1997 | isbn = 81-7099-674-0 | page = 51 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=BcIniHQAHfUC}}</ref> Finally, the committee's plan went into effect on 1 July 1970, when West Pakistan's "One Unit" was dissolved, and all power was transferred to the provinces of Balochistan, the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa|North West Frontier Province]], Punjab and Sindh.<ref name="Dawn Newspapers, 6 August 2002"/><ref name=Akbar/>

In the [[1970 Pakistani general election|1970 general elections]] (held in December 1970), the Bengali [[Awami League]] under [[Mujibur Rahman]] won an overall majority of seats in Parliament and all but 2 of the 162 seats allocated to East Pakistan. The Awami League advocated greater autonomy for East Pakistan but the military government did not permit Mujib-ur-Rahman to form a government.

East Pakistan became the independent state of Bangladesh on 16 December 1971. The term West Pakistan became redundant.