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3 unusual facts about Muslim League


Collaborators Act 1972

Muslim League leader Rajakar Athar Ali Khan was the father of a freedom fighter from Bagerhat who attained the gallantry award Bir Sreshtho for his bravery.

The members of Pakistan Muslim League, Jamaat-e-Islami, Nizam-e-Islam joined the Peace Committee, which was actually formed to support the atrocities.

India in World War II

The Muslim League supported the British war effort while the largest and most influential political party existing in India at the time, the Indian National Congress, demanded independence before it would help Britain.


Gopal Chandra Mukhopadhyay

G.G.Ajmiri, leader of the student's wing of Muslim League along with Mujibur Rahman, a member of the Muslim National Guard and a boxer and strongman himself, requested Gopal to stop the bloodshed.

Woodrow Wyatt

During the Cabinet Mission to India in 1946 he served as an informal liaison officer between the Mission and the Muslim League.


see also

Abdul Matlib Mazumdar

To counter the rising popularity of Muslim League, he successfully organised the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind movement in Assam.

All-India Jamhur Muslim League

The All India Jamhur Muslim League was formed in 1940, to counter the Lahore resolution, passed by the All-India Muslim League, for a separate Pakistan based on Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Two nation theory.

Awami Muslim League

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

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.

Muhammad Ali Bogra

Grew up in East-Pakistan and educated at the Calcutta University of India, Bogra was one of the core and principle Founding Fathers of current and modern state of Pakistan, responsible for leading the Muslim League in East Pakistan, in charge of party's foreign directorate.

P. K. Abdu Rabb

Abdu Rabb was born to Muslim League Leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Kerala Late K. Avukader Kutty Naha and Kunhibiriyam Umma.

Pakistan Muslim League

Hamid Chattha became the president and Iqbal Ahmed Khan the general secretary and Nawab Sardar Mushtaq Ahmed Khan the vice-chairman.But in 1995 Manzoor Wattoo and Nawab Sardar Mushtaq Ahmed Khan Malazai left the party to form a new Muslim League of their own.It merged with PML-Q in 2004.