Ayub Khan’s Policies – An

Assessment
• Quickening the tempo for growth
• Dramatic turnaround in investment and
growth in both East and West Pakistan
• This development momentum was seriously
disrupted by the 1965 war with India. –
Reduction in foreign aid availability and
increased defence spending squeezed
investment.
• Growth of GDP remained high both in East
and West Pakistan in the second half of 1960s
but this was concentrated mostly in
agriculture in West Pakistan.
• In economic policy terms, major failures were
the perpetuation of the industrial and trade
policies of 1950s and an excessive reliance on
external assistance.