Cambridge International Examinations

Cambridge Ordinary Level

PAKISTAN STUDIES 2059/01

Paper 1 History and Culture of Pakistan May/June 2016
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The cyclone that broke Pakistan’s back

Cyclone Bhola hit East Pakistan on 12 November 1970. It wiped out villages, destroyed crops and
killed nearly one million people. Nearly 85 per cent of the area was destroyed. Three months after the
cyclone, 75 per cent of the population was receiving food from relief workers. Historians believe the
devastation caused by the cyclone, the view that the government had mismanaged the relief efforts
and West Pakistan’s blatant neglect, all contributed to the high levels of anti-West Pakistan feeling.
This led to a sweeping victory for the Awami League, and eventually the breakup of Pakistan and the
creation of Bangladesh. The catastrophe happened in Pakistan yet it is felt that few Pakistanis even
know of it by name. Fewer still remember that it eventually contributed to Pakistan’s breakup.

From The Express Tribune, 18 August 2010.

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