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2 unusual facts about Awami Muslim League


Awami Muslim League

Bangladesh Awami League, named All Pakistan Awami Muslim League until 1953

Constituency NA-55

Among them are Siddique-ul-Farooq, Raja Ashfaq Sarwar Malik Shakeel Awan (PML-N), Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed (AML), Ijaz Khan Jaazi (PTI) and Amir Fida Paracha (PPP).


Muslim League schisms

The first faction was created when Awami Muslim League was founded in Dhaka, the erstwhile capital of the Pakistani province of East Pakistan, in 1949 by Bengali nationalists Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Shamsul Huq.


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Bangladesh Awami League

In 1952, the Awami Muslim League and its student wing played an instrumental role in the Bengali Language Movement, during which Pakistani security forces fired upon thousands of protesting students demanding Bengali be declared an official language of Pakistan and famously killing a number of students including Abdus Salam, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Abul Barkat and Abdul Jabbar.