Muslim League National Guard

Muslim League National Guard
AbbreviationMLNG
Formation1937
FounderRaja of Mahmudabad
Founded atMahmudabad, United Provinces, British India
Defunct1949; 75 years ago (1949)
TypeQuasi-paramilitary
Legal statusDefunct
PurposeIslamism, Pakistan movement, Kashmiri separatist movement
Region served
South Asia
Membership (1947)
118,152[1]
Notable commanders
Siddique Ali Khan
Shaukat Hayat Khan
Khurshid Anwar
Parent organization
All-India Muslim League

Muslim League National Guard,[2] or Muslim National Guard,[3] was the name of a quasi-paramilitary Islamist organization associated with the All-India Muslim League that took part in the Pakistan Movement. It was active in the violence that ensued during the Partition of India and later the Kashmir conflict.

In East Bengal, the Muslim National Guard was popularly known as the Azrail Bahini.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Talbot, The Role of the Muslim National Guards (1996), pp. 65–66.
  2. ^ Hansen, The Punjab 1937-47 – A Case of Genocide? (2003), p. 95.
  3. ^ Talbot, The Role of the Muslim National Guards (1996).