Awami League (Pakistan)

Awami League عوامی لیگ (Urdu) আওয়ামী লীগ (Bengali)
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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Events
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Organisations
East Pakistan Renaissance Society Awami League United Front East Pakistan Communist Party Sarbadaliya Chhatra Sangram Parishad Swadhin Bangla Biplobi Parishad Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra
Key persons
Abul Kalam Shamsuddin Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury Mujibur Rahman Khan Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Serajul Alam Khan Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani Ataur Rahman Khan
Related
Lahore Resolution United Bengal Bangladesh Liberation War International recognition
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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]