ABSTRACT
After assuming office as prime minister, Chaudhury Muhammad Ali concentrated his attention first on the one unit bill. A draft of the bill had been placed before the assembly at its Murree session and it was passed on to a select committee. The "document" was a note drafted by Daultana, a copy of which was given to Rashid by Muhammad Ali at Murree. The most important question was the shape of an interim administration to operate until an assembly for the one unit could be elected by the people. Sardar Abdur Rashid, who had obtained the endorsement of the Frontier assembly, now was in the forefront of those opposing. In a dramatic manner, he read excerpts from a "secret document" before the house and tried to show that the whole one unit scheme was simply a cover for Punjabi domination of West Pakistan. The one unit plan could only succeed in a climate of mutual trust and brotherhood.
