The All-Pakistan Awami League (before 1955 the All-Pakistan Awami Muslim League), or simply Awami League, was a Pakistani political party founded by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in February 1950. Pir of Manki Sharif and Khan Ghulam Mohammad Khan from the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) joined it soon afterwards. [1][2]

In 1949, the party was founded as the East Pakistan Awami Muslim League (after 1955 the East Pakistan Awami League) by the Bengali nationalists Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Yar Mohammad Khan and Shamsul Huq, and joined later by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy who went on to become Prime Minister of Pakistan.

The tense relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, (Mujib), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan.

By 1956 the Awami League was the most popular party in East Pakistan and became the Muslim League's main contender for power. From 1958 to 1971 Pakistan was reduced to an administrative state with four years of martial law and a diminished role …

2024年6月23日 · The party which was founded on 23 June 1949 in Rose Garden of Tikatuli in Dhaka under the name of East Pakistan Awami Muslim League, is the Awami League of today. The founders of the party include Maulana Bhasani, Hoseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The Awami League, headed by East Pakistan’s popular Bengali leader Mujibur Rahman (Sheikh Mujib), won a clear majority of seats in the new assembly, but West Pakistan’s chief martial law administrator and president, General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan, refused to honour the democratic choice of his…

On June 23, 1949, the Awami Muslim League party was founded in the Rose Garden of KM Das Lane in old Dhaka. Then, a non-sectarian section of Muslim League leaders left and formed a new party called East Pakistan Awami Muslim League through a political workers conference. The demand for the party's non-sectarian name was raised at its establishment.

The Awami Muslim League (AML) was established in Dhaka (Dacca), East Pakistan by Maulana Bhashani, Shamsul Huq, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on June 23, 1949. Sir Feroz Khan Noon was appointed as Governor of East Bengal on March 31, 1950.

2024年6月23日 · Awami League is one of the country's oldest, non-sectarian, largest and leading political party in the Bengali national liberation struggle. The first work of building a non-communal Bangladesh started with the hands of that Awami League which was led by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Here, party politics first crystalized itself under the leadership of the East Pakistan Awami Mus-lim League,1 which played a prominent role in the language movement of the province in 1952, and in the defeat of the Muslim League in the 1954 elections …