Leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed Ideology Mass politics
Centrism Colours Green and white | Founded 2008 Political position Centre | |
Headquarters Central Secretariat, Laal Haveli, Rawalpindi, Pakistan | ||
Awami Muslim League Pakistan (Urdu: عوامی مسلم لیگ پاکستان) is a Pakistani political party formed in June 2008 by Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad.
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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.
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.