All-Pakistan Awami League

All-Pakistan Awami League آل پاکستان عوامی لیگ নিখিল পাকিস্তান আওয়ামী লীগ
Abbreviation	AL
Founder	Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Founded	February 1950 (1950-02)
Banned	26 March 1971 (1971-03-26)
Merger of	East Pakistan Awami Muslim League Frontier Awami Muslim League Jinnah Muslim League
Succeeded by	Bangladesh Awami League
Headquarters	Haroon Abdullah Road, Karachi
Newspaper	Ittefaq
Ideology	Bengali nationalism (after 1966) Socialism Democratic socialism Factions: Secularism Islamic socialism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Combined Opposition Parties (1965)
Colors	Green
Election symbol
Boat
Party flag
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Part of a series on the
Independence of Bangladesh
Events
Partition of Bengal Bengali language movement Six point movement Agartala Conspiracy Case Eleven Points Programme East Pakistan mass uprising Pakistani general election Non-cooperation movement 7 March Speech Operation Searchlight Proclamation of Independence
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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The Awami League (officially the All-Pakistan Awami League, and before 1955 the All-Pakistan Awami Muslim 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]