What demand did the Awami League make that the Pakistani rulers were unwilling to accept?

Demand for a federation

The correct answer is Option 3 - Demand for a federation

In the 1970s, Pakistani rulers were unwilling to accept the Awami League’s demand for a federation.

Beginning in 1970, Pakistan faced its biggest internal crisis. The country’s first general election produced a split verdict – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s party emerged a winner in West Pakistan, while the Awami League led by Sheikh Mujib-ur Rahman swept through East Pakistan. The Bengali population of East Pakistan had voted to protest against years of being treated as second class citizens by the rulers based in West Pakistan. The Pakistani rulers were not willing to accept the democratic verdict. Nor were they ready to accept the Awami League’s demand for a federation. Instead, in early 1971, the Pakistani army arrested Sheikh Mujib and unleashed a reign of terror on the people of East Pakistan. response to this, the people started a struggle to liberate ‘Bangladesh’ from Pakistan.