Admiral Ahsan Mission

Ahsan's Formula (or the Admiral Ahsan Mission) was a peace initiative mission dispatched by the

The recommendations based on the studies were roughly based on six-point movement proposed by the Awami League in 1969 and called for:

• Center would control the defence, military, foreign, national security, and the currency.^[1]: 102
• Province(s) would have the authority to raise revenue and would fund the subject of the federation.^[1]: 102
• Repatriation of Western Pakistanis citizens and bureaucrats to Pakistan with Eastern Pakistanis stationed back to East.
• Equal divisions of national assets between Pakistan and East Pakistan based on population census.

The mission also called for Pakistan becoming a co-federation with Yahya Khan as president with Mujib being the Prime Minister of East while Bhutto being Prime Minister of Pakistan.^[1]: 102 Civil servants from Pakistan stationed in East would repatriated to Pakistan and the national assets would equally be divided between East and West Pakistan.^[1]: 102 The proposal was met with strong support from the international community and India fell in line though reluctant.^[1]: 102

The formula was supported by the political leaders of West Pakistan, with the exception of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and by the international community, including, reluctantly, India.^{: 102 [1]} However, the Mission was not supported by the military elements in the Yahya administration who debated acrimoniously over the scope of the mission's recommendations among the advisors in Yahya administration.^[3]

By the fall of 1971, the mission's recommendations were bypassed with Admiral Ahsan submitting his resignation and posted back to Pakistan, followed by the resignation of Lieutenant-General Yaqub Ali Khan.

See also

• Six point movement

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