The All Pakistan Awami Muslim League was formed in Dhaka in 1949.[2] The organization's name was later secularized as the Awami League in 1955.[3] The party was supported by the Bengali bourgeois, agriculturalists, the middle class, and the intelligentsia.[4] Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin, Mohammad Ali of Bogra, and H. S. Suhrawardy each served as Pakistan's prime minister during the 1950s; however, all three were deposed by the military-industrial complex in West Pakistan.