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Challenges for the newborn state
• Several impediments for Pakistan soon after its formation
• Some immediate others long term
• The Punjab riots • The most immediate and
grave issue was the influx of refugees
• Indian propaganda • Economic burden• Disputes over cash balances • Issues between natives and
immigrants • Territorial issues
• Energy crises • Trade issues • Pakistan major exporter of cotton and wheat • India exporter of sugar and coal • East Bengal grew Jute whereas the factories to
process that jute was in west Bengal • No trade links between east and west wing • Pakistan lacked sea ports only one Karachi
port • Calcutta Port given to India
Long term disputes • Kashmir dispute • Canal Water issues• War 1948 • Issues among the east
and west wing • Language dispute• Constitutional problems• Pakistan also lacked
professionals and technical staff to run the administration
• Challenges from the western frontiers • Tribal chiefs and princely states • Pakhtounistan Issue