Muslim League (1947–1958)

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The All-Pakistan Muslim League, more commonly referred to as Muslim League, was the original successor of the All-India Muslim League, the party that led the Pakistan Movement and achieved independence for Pakistan. Following Partition, the All-India Muslim League was renamed All-Pakistan Muslim League in December 1947. It commanded a supermajority in the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, and formed five successive governments during the country's first decade: those of prime ministers Liaquat Ali Khan, Khwaja Nazimuddin, Mohammad Ali Bogra, Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, and Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar; the latter two of whom headed unstable minority governments. The party was heavily defeated in the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election by the United Front, a political alliance led by a dissident offshoot, the Awami League. The Muslim League ministries produced the draft Constitution of 1954, which was precluded by Governor-General Ghulam Muhammad sacking the Constituent Assembly...

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