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Awami League

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Awami League political organization in Pakistan and Bangladesh. It was founded in 1949 as an opposition party in Pakistan and had a moderately socialist ideology. The Awami [people's] League, with cofounder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as its leader from 1953, called in 1966 for a federation of East and West Pakistan, an arrangement that would have given much greater autonomy to East Pakistan. The party's candidates won a majority in the 1970 elections, but the central government in West Pakistan banned the League after war between East and West Pakistan erupted in early 1971. When Bangladesh (... Read more
Awami (‘People's’) League
Awami (‘People's’) League A political party in East...where it defeated the Muslim League in the 1954 elections. In...who founded the National Awami Party. Nevertheless, under...daughter of Mujibur Rahman. The Awami League won the 1996 elections... Read more
Hasina Wazed
...Mujibur Rahman and a member of the Awami League , which her father cofounded and...was elected (1981) leader of the Awami League. Later that year she returned to...held a decade later returned the Awami League to power, and Sheikh Hasina became... Read more

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