OTL Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan (East Pakistan) until the liberation war in 1971, triggered by Operation Searchlight - an attempted genocide by the Pakistani army. This was in many ways inevitable, Bengalis were ethnically, racially (according to the Pakistani army atleast), linguistically and culturally different from the rest of Pakistan, not to mention separated by thousands of kilometers by its arch-rival. That being said, the events of 1971 were historical circumstance and I think it would be it would be pretty trivial to keep East and West Pakistan united. You just have to delay the disturbances until Pakistan develops nuclear weapons, at which point India would be too scared to intervene directly and the army can just massacre any would-be Bengali revolutionary.
OTL East Pakistan was treated much like a colony, receiving pennies from the central government and being neglected during natural disasters - despite the fact that a majority of the population lived in the East and it contributed a disproportionate amount of funds to the exchequer thanks to the jute industry. A Bangladesh still part of Pakistan would probably not have industrialized as much as OTL and have a lot higher population without the secularization it experienced OTL, but that's about all I can think of right now.
Thoughts? And how about the rest of Pakistan and India, how would they be affected without Bangladesh?
OTL East Pakistan was treated much like a colony, receiving pennies from the central government and being neglected during natural disasters - despite the fact that a majority of the population lived in the East and it contributed a disproportionate amount of funds to the exchequer thanks to the jute industry. A Bangladesh still part of Pakistan would probably not have industrialized as much as OTL and have a lot higher population without the secularization it experienced OTL, but that's about all I can think of right now.
Thoughts? And how about the rest of Pakistan and India, how would they be affected without Bangladesh?