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by selimthegrim 3392 days ago
There's no seems about it. If you speak Urdu the following link will be instructive

https://youtu.be/J-7j6O_whYA?t=1m8s

I transcribe the key part here (1:08-1:48):

Nisar: We had a great bureaucrat, a senior intellectual, Qudratullah Shahab who has a book called Shahabnama (an autobiography). (he relates from the book) In the 1950s, the Americans had given, as was their custom, sanitary goods as charitable donations in bulk. In a few cabinet meetings, Bengali ministers said "Let us have a share from this." The potbellied, large mustachioed (this is a Punjabi stereotype) West Pakistani ministers made fun of them and said "What do you lot need a commode for, you can go behind a banana plant" This was the manner of dealing with them.