Back ন্যাশনাল আওয়ামী পার্টি Bengali/Bangla Parti Awami national French Partito Nazionale del Popolo (Bangladesh) Italian نیشنل عوامی پارٹی PNB نیشنل عوامی پارٹی Urdu
National Awami Party National People's Party | |
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| Urdu name | نیشنل عوامی پارٹی |
| Bengali name | ন্যাশনাল আওয়ামী পার্টি |
| Abbreviation | NAP |
| Leader | Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani |
| Founders | Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Yar Mohammad Khan |
| Founded | 1957 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 left-wing political party in East and West Pakistan. It was founded in 1957 in Dhaka, erstwhile East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Yar Mohammad Khan, through the merger of various leftist and progressive political groups in Pakistan. Commonly known as the NAP, it was a major opposition party to Pakistani military regimes for much of the late 1950s and mid-1960s. In 1967 the party split into two factions.