History Of Pakistan

The All-India Muslim League,(Urdu: لیگ مسلم انڈیا آل ,(was a political party which advocated the creation of a
separate Muslim-majority nation, Pakistan. It emerged from the Aligarh Movement, formed originally to promote a
modern education for Muslims. It was founded by the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka
(now Bangladesh), in 1906, in the midst of the protests over the partition of Bengal in 1905. The goal was to define
and advance Muslim agendas, protect Muslim rights in India, and present a unified Muslim voice to the British Raj
which ruled India until 1947. The League until the late 1930s was not a mass organization but represented the landed
and commercial Muslim interests of the United Provinces (today's Uttar Pradesh).[1] The Muslim League played a
decisive role during the 1940s in the Indian independence movement, as the driving force behind the division of
India along religious lines and the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state in 1947.[2] After the independence of India
and Pakistan, the League continued as a minor party in India, especially in Kerala, where it is often in government
within a coalition with others. In Pakistan, the League formed the country's first government, but disintegrated
during the 1950s following an army coup. One or more factions of the Muslim League have been in power in most
of the civilian governments of Pakistan since 1947. In Bangladesh, the party was revived in 1976 and won 14 seats
in 1979 parliamentary election. Since then its importance has reduced, rendering it insignificant in the political arena.
Muslim League, political organization of India and Pakistan, founded 1906 as the All-India Muslim League by Aga
Khan III. Its original purpose was to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in India. An early leader in the League,
Muhammad Iqbal, was one of the first to propose (1930) the creation of a separate Muslim India. By 1940, under the
leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, it had gained such power that, for the first time, it demanded the establishment
of a Muslim state (Pakistan), despite the opposition of the Indian National Congress. During World War II the
Congress was banned, but the League, which supported the British war effort, was allowed to function and gained
strength. It won nearly all of the Muslim vote in the elections of 1946. The following year saw the division of the
Indian subcontinent and the Muslim League became the major political party of newly formed Pakistan. By 1953,
however, dissensions within the League had led to the formation of several different political parties.
Between 1958 and 1962, while martial law was in force under Muhammad Ayub Khan, the League was officially
defunct. Later, the League reformed into two separate factions: the Convention Muslim League (under Ayub) and
the Council Muslim League. This latter group joined a united front with other political parties in 1967 in opposition
to the group led by Ayub. The Convention Muslim League ceased to exist when Ayub Khan resigned in 1969.