There were more development in 24 years of flood prone Bangladesh as East Pakistan than first 24 years of Bangladesh as an independent country.
Simple thing is you guys are too effing obsessed with Pak that you see us everywhere even when some Yankee says something about BD, you blame Pak for it.
No export industry after 1971 as jute lost it's values by then.
War damage - deliberate killing of intellectuals and destruction of infrastructure.
BD was not given a single dollar from Pakistan reserves when it broke away.
Look at BD now with a per capita GDP growing at 6% a year - this compared to average 3.5% per capita GDP growth in Pakistan in the 1980s(best decade) when it received billions of dollars in military and economic help from US due to Soviet Invasion of Afgahnistan.