Awami League (Pakistan)
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Awami League, known as Awami Muslim League before 1955, was an East Pakistan-based 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]
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Awami League عوامی لیگ (Urdu) আওয়ামী লীগ (Bengali) | |
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Abbreviation | AL |
Historical leader(s) | Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
Founder | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy |
Founded | 23 June 1949 (1949-06-23) |
Dissolved | 26 March 1971 (1971-03-26) |
Split from | ML |
Succeeded by | AL |
Headquarters | Dacca, East Pakistan |
Newspaper | Ittefaq |
Ideology | Bengali nationalism (after 1966) Socialism Democratic socialism Factions: Secularism Islamic socialism |
Political position | Left-wing |
Colors | Green |
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