Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: East Pakistan yakatumidzwa kubva kuEast Bengal neOne Unit scheme yePakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Ali weBogra. Bumbiro rePakistan ra1956 rakatsiva umambo hwePakistan nehurumende yeIslam. Wezvematongerwo enyika wechiBengali H. S. Suhrawardy akashanda seMutungamiriri wePakistan pakati pa1956 na1957 uye mukuru wechiBengali Iskander Mirza akava Mutungamiriri wekutanga wePakistan. Kudengenyeka kwePakistan kwa1958 kwakaunza mukuru mukuru Ayub Khan musimba. Khan akatsiva Mirza semutungamiri wenyika ndokutanga kumanikidza vatungamiriri vanotsigira demokrasi. Khan akagadza Bumbiro rePakistan ra1962 iro rakagumisa kuvhota kwevanhu vose. Pakazosvika 1966, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman akabuda semutungamiri akakurumbira wevanopikisa muPakistan ndokutanga kufamba kwemapoinzi matanhatu ekuzvitonga uye democracy. Kumukira kwa1969 muEast Pakistan kwakabetsera kukudzingwa kwaAyub Khan. Mumwe mukuru mukuru, Yahya Khan, akatora chigaro chehutungamiri ndokuisa mutemo wehondo. muna 1970, Yahya Khan akaronga sarudzo huru dzekutanga dzePakistan. Awami League yakabuda sebato rimwe chete guru, ichiteverwa nePakistan Peoples Party. Hurumende yechiuto yakamira pakugamuchira migumisiro yacho, zvichitungamirira kukupandukira hurumende, Hondo Yokusunungura yeBangladesh uye
Kuparadza rudzi kweBangladesh muna 1971. East Pakistan yakaparadzana nebetsero yeIndia.