Awami Muslim League (Pakistan)

Not to be confused with All Pakistan Awami Muslim League.
Awami Muslim League Pakistan
عوامی مسلم لیگ پاکستان
Leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed
Founded 2008
Headquarters Central Secretariat, Laal Haveli, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Ideology Mass politics
Centrism
Political position Centre
Colours Green and white
        
National Assembly
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Website
http://www.aml.org.pk


Awami Muslim League Pakistan (Urdu: عوامی مسلم لیگ پاکستان) is a Pakistani political party formed in June 2008 by Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad.[1]

NA-55 (Rawalpindi-VI)

This constituency of Rawalpindi is famous for the famous politician of Pakistan Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad. He won 6 consecutive elections from this area. He lost to Javed Hashmi in 2008. He then again lost in the by-elections to Shakeel Awan after a neck to neck contest. In 2013 general elections he defeated Shakeel Awan. [2]

Former party

This was also the name of the political party founded by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and which later evolved into the Awami League, the party that, under the leadership of Shaikh Mujibur Rahman (himself a former aide to Suharwardy).

The All Pakistan Awami Muslim League was formed as a breakaway faction of the "All Pakistan Muslim League" in 1949, within two years of the formation of Pakistan. The word Muslim was dropped in 1953. Two parties of the same name were created in Pakistan.

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