BAN OFF, YET AWAMI LEAGUE IS ILLEGAL
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's
outlawed Awami League remains illegal despite the
lifting of the six-month old ban on political activity in
In the general elections last December, the Awami League won a landslide victory with 160 seats in the
National Assembly on a six-point platform of maximum autonomy for the
east. The Sheikh sought to leave only defence and foreign affairs in
the hands of the Central Government.
Following the ban on the Awami League, the biggest single faction in the Assembly became the People's Party of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
(Reuter
despatch datelined Rawalpindi-October
10, 1971)
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