All-India Muslim League
The Muslim League ( Urdu مسلم لیگ ) was a historical political party of Muslims in India and is split into two groups PML -N and PML -Q in 2001, one of the main political parties in today's Pakistan.
Indian independence struggle
The All-India Muslim League was founded in 1906 in Dhaka. Mohammed Ali Jinnah was elected in 1916 as president of the Muslim League in British-ruled India. This is a party that increasingly broke away in 1936 from the Indian National Congress and was working towards the establishment of a borne out by independent state of the Muslims developed. Jinnah wrote in this context, in 1940 the so-called Lahore Resolution. In the negotiations with the British over the independence of India in 1947, he set the partition of the Indian subcontinent in the predominantly inhabited by Hindus in India and the Muslim state of Pakistan in the Indus and the Ganges estuary. As part of the division left more than 4 million Muslims today's India, while approximately 7 million Hindus and Sikhs left the territory of Pakistan. It is believed that in acts of violence and through the rigors during the run up to 750,000 people lost their lives.
Muslim League in Pakistan
Jinnah was until his death in 1948, the first head of state of Pakistan. 1954 lost the hitherto ruling Pakistan Muslim League in the regional elections in East Pakistan against the opposition Awami League. Iskander Mirza was used as the governor of East Pakistan. On March 23, 1956, the first constitution of Pakistan came into force, Mirza became the first president of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Between 1958 and 1972 there was martial law in Pakistan. In 1971 after the defeat of (West) Pakistan in the Civil War against Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan ) was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his Pakistan People's Party (PPP ) to power. 1977 coup after protests by the Muslim League and the Pakistan National Alliance ( PNA), the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces General Mohammed Zia ul- Haq. After the death of Zia ul-Haq in August 1988 and the electoral victory of the PPP under Benazir Bhutto won the elections in October 1990, dominated by the Muslim League party alliance "Islamic Democratic Alliance " under whose leader Nawaz Sharif. After his dismissal in 1993 Benazir Bhutto became Prime Minister again. In the 1997 parliamentary elections, the Muslim League won an absolute majority. On 12 October 1999 Nawaz Sharif was deposed by the chief of staff of the Army Pervez Musharraf in a bloodless coup.
In the parliamentary election of 2002 was one of the President General Pervez Musharraf related elimination of the Muslim League, the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid -e -Azam (PML -Q) strongest faction. The Muslim League Nawaz Sharif (PML -N) was only a splinter party.
In the parliamentary elections of 2008, the PML -N, however, the second strongest force behind the PPP in the National Assembly. In March 2009, the PWL -N and numerous lawyers called for several days of protests against government policies. In a " Long March " on the capital Islamabad should be demonstrated for an independent judiciary in Pakistan. It came on March 15, 2009 in Lahore serious riots between supporters of Sharif and the police. Messages that Sharif was put under house arrest to prevent his participation in the rallies, not confirmed. After the Pakistani government had given the main demand of the opposition and announced the reinstatement of several judges, including the former Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Sharif said the " Long March " from.
In the parliamentary elections in Pakistan on May 11, 2013 Nawaz Sharif reached as the leading candidate for the Pakistan Muslim League ( Nawaz ) for many observers expected at least 130 of the 371 parliamentary seats to be filled. He was particularly successful in his home province of Punjab. On June 5, 2013, was re-elected Prime Minister.
On July 30, 2013 won Mamnoon Hussain, a candidate of the Muslim League, the presidential election in Pakistan.
Muslim League in India
The Muslim League ( as Indian Union Muslim League) existed even after the partition of the Indian subcontinent as a political party in the Republic of India. 13.4 per cent of India's population is Muslim (mainly Sunni). (Source: Census of India 2001) The strongest support, the party in Kerala, where she repeatedly asked the government.
Since the 1980s, several factions such as the All India Majlis -e- Muslimeen Ittehadul emerged. The Indian Union Muslim League is now part of the ruling United Progressive Alliance in India under Sonia Gandhi.