Forum Pakistan

All India Muslim League
(AIML) The most influential political party in the history of Pakistan. It was organized on 30 December 1906. The first session of the League was held in December 1907 in Karachi. The League emerged as a political organization representing the interest of the well-to-do upper and middle strata of the Muslim community in *British India. In 1927 the League had only 1,330 members. At its twenty-seventh annual session in March 1940 the League called for the formation of two independent Muslim states in the northern and eastern part of the South Asian subcontinent (see Lahore Resolution, 1940), which helped the League to become a mass organization. In April 1946, in Delhi, the League proclaimed its aim of founding a unified independent Muslim state, Pakistan. It headed the movement for the establishment of Pakistan. In 1947 Pakistan and India were divided. The *Pakistan Muslim League became the leading political party of Pakistan, By 1953, however, the league was divided into various different factions. Currently, PML (Quaidi-Azam) is in power and PML (Nawaz) is in opposition.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: L.R. Gordon-Polonskaya, 'Moslem Trends in the Social Life of India and Pakistan', Moscow, 1963 (in Russian);

A.G. Belsky, 'Moslem Communalism in India:
Origins, Ideology, Policies', Moscow, 1988 (in Russian); 'Foundations of Pakistan-All-India Muslim League
Documents: 1906-1947', Vols I-II, Karachi, 1970; Lal Bahadur, 'The Muslim League', Agra, 1954.