Awami Muslim League Pakistan () is a

List of political parties in Pakistan Pakistan is a multi-party democracy. The country has many political parties and many times in the past the country has been ruled by a coalition government. The Parliament of Pakistan is bicameral, consisting of the National Assembly of Pakis ...

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

formed in June 2008 by

Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad (; born 6 November 1950) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 38th Interior Minister of Pakistan in Imran Khan government from 2020 to 2022. He is the founder and leader of Awami Muslim League, and also maintains cl ...

. The party tends to have close relations with the PTI party.

Former party

This was also the name of the political party founded by

Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (12 December 1880 – 17 November 1976), also known reverentially as Maulana Bhashani, was a Bangladeshi politician and statesman who was one of the founder of the Awami League, the oldest and main political party in B ...

and

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (8 September 18925 December 1963) was an East Pakistani barrister, politician and statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1956 to 1957 and before that as the Prime Minister of Bengal from 1946 to ...

and which later evolved into the

Awami League The Awami League, officially known as Bangladesh Awami League, is a major List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. The oldest existing political party in the country, the party played the leading role in achievin ...

, the party that, under the leadership of

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), also known by the honorific Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman and activist who was the founding president of Bangladesh. As the leader of Bangl ...

(himself a former aide to Suharwardy). The All Pakistan Awami Muslim League was formed as a breakaway faction of the "

All Pakistan Muslim League All Pakistan Muslim League (Urdu: ; APML) was a political party in Pakistan founded by Pervez Musharraf in 2010. The launching ceremony of the party was held in London, but the central secretariat of APML is located in Karachi, Pakistan. The El ...

" in 1949, within two years of the formation of Pakistan. Two parties of the same name were created in

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

. The East Pakistan Awami Muslim League formed by Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, which later became

The word

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was dropped in 1953.

Electoral history

NA-62 (Rawalpindi-VI)

This constituency of

Rawalpindi Rawalpindi is the List of cities in Punjab, Pakistan by population, third-largest city in the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is a commercial and industrial hub, being the list of cities in P ...

tends to be the primary electoral seat for AML leader,

since 1988. He won 6 consecutive elections from this area. Ahmad was elected as an

Independent candidate An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have polit ...

from this constituency receiving 60,649 votes in

2002 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 10 October 2002 to elect the 12th National Assembly and four Provincial Assemblies. The elections were held under the military government of Pervez Musharraf. The two mainstream parties, Pakistan ...

. He lost to Javed Hashmi in 2008. He then again lost in the by-elections to

PML-N The Pakistan Muslim League (N) or (PML(N)) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right, Conservatism in Pakistan, conservative political party in Pakistan. It is currently the third-largest party in the Senate of Pakistan, Senate and the larges ...

's Shakeel Awan after tight contest, held in 2010. In 2013 general elections, he defeated Shakeel Awan.

National Assembly elections

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