National Awami Party
National Awami Party National People's Party | |
|---|---|
Dacca, East Pakistan, Pakistan | |
| Dissolved | November 30, 1967 |
| Merger of | APP Sindh Mahaz SHC Pukhtun Brotherhood Usthman Gul KK GD |
| Succeeded by | NAP (Wali) NAP (Bhashani) |
| Student wing | Democratic Students Federation |
| Political position | Left-wing |
The National Awami Party (NAP), translated from Urdu to English as National People's Party, was the major
History
The NAP was founded in Dhaka in erstwhile East Pakistan by 1957.[1]
The constituent parties in 1957 and their areas of influence were:
- The Bhashani-led faction which broke away from the Awami League
- Azad Pakistan Party a party led by Mian Iftikharuddin, Syed Kaswar Gardezi and Mahmud Ali Kasuri.
- Sindh Mahaz led by G. M. Syed and Sheikh Abdul Majid Sindhi.
- Haider Bakhsh Jatoi.
- Wrore Pukhtun (Pukhtun Brotherhood) a Balochistan-based party led by Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai and Hashim Khan Ghilzai.
- Kalat (princely state).
- Khan Abdul Wali Khan, also joined the party.
- Ganatantri Dal an East Bengali party led by Haji Mohammad Danesh of Dinajpur and Mahmud Ali of Sylhet.
The party President was
The National Awami Party was along with the
1958 ban
In 1958
Revival
When Ayub allowed political parties again in 1962, the NAP was revived with all of its old components except the G.M. Sayed group and Ganatantri Dal.[3]
Party split
At the end of 1967, a growing rift developed within the party, allegedly because Maulana Bhashani told his supporters to support
- A pro-Chinese Maulana Bhashani-led faction
- A pro-Soviet Wali Khan-led faction[1]
NAP (Bhashani) played an instrumental role in the secession of East Pakistan and the liberation of Bangladesh. After the death of Bhashani in 1976, his party lost much of its prominence on the Bangladeshi political scene. Many of its leaders became members of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Today, the liberal and progressive faction within the BNP is led by former NAP leaders.
After the 1971 war, the NAP (Wali) became the principal opposition party to the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto-led government of the Pakistan People's Party. The NAP (Wali) was banned after a relentless attack by the then Prime Minister Bhutto, who accused its leaders of treason and after a sham trial, the NAP was banned from Pakistani politics. The leaders of the NAP (Wali), including Khan Abdul Wali Khan, were only released during the regime of General Zia-ul-Haq.
Political ideology
The NAP set the following as its main aims:
- Defence of the sovereignty, integrity, and independence of Pakistan.
- Non-aligned, independent foreign policy.
- Ending of exploitation of Pakistan externally and its people internally.
- Abolition of One Unitand reorganisation of provinces on a linguistic basis.
- Right of adult franchise.[5]
In July 1965, as the manifesto was amended after the party's re-emergence, the NAP declared that the system of government in the country should be based on the concept of people's sovereignty. The Party advocated the maximum provincial autonomy in a
See also
- Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
- Yar Mohammad Khan
- B. M. Kutty
- Mirza Mehdy Ispahani
- National Awami Party (Wali)
- National Students Federation
- Awami National Party
- Khan Abdul Wali Khan
- Sherbaz Khan Mazari
- Abdul Hai Baloch
- Jam Saqi
- Baloch Students Organization
- Mashiur Rahman (Jadu Miah)
References
- ^ a b c The National Awami Party of Pakistan: Leftist Politics in Crisis M. Rashiduzzaman Pacific Affairs, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Autumn, 1970), pp. 394-409 Published by: Pacific Affairs, University of British Columbia
- ^ National Awami Party, Retrieved 27 June 2017
- ^ Progressive Movements in Pakistan collection
- ^ National Awami Party
- ^ Balochistan Nationalism and its origins Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ National Awami Party (NAP), The Manifesto of National Awami Party of Pakistan. Karachi: Anjuman Press, nd, p. 5.
