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Afzal Bangash
Mohammad Afzal Khan Bangash (Urdu: محمد افضل خان بنگش; 16 April 1924 – 28 October 1986) was a Pakistani Marxist politician and activist. He was a member of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) until 1957 and then served as an office-bearer in the National Awami Party (NAP), and later, along with his colleague Sher Ali Bacha, as the co-founder and president of the Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP).
Mohammad Afzal Khan Bangash was born on 16 April 1924, in Kohat, British India. His father was Mohammad Akbar Khan Bangash, an advocate.[citation needed]
Afzal Bangash became one of the leading lawyers of NWFP and during Ayub Khan's rule, he was offered the judgeship of the West Pakistan high court. He declined the offer, choosing instead to concentrate on pleading cases of peasants who were being evicted by Ayub's land reforms.
Bangash joined the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) soon after its formation in 1948 and became a member of its NWFP committee.
In 1957 he was elected as the first General Secretary of the National Awami Party (NAP). He was responsible for organizing the peasant committee in NWFP.[citation needed]
In the 1965 Pakistani presidential election, Bangash served as Fatima Jinnah's provincial chief campaign manager in her campaign against Ayub Khan.[citation needed]
In the 1967 NAP split, Afzal Bangash and Sher Ali Bacha, who were active in peasant committees, decided to follow the Khan Abdul Wali Khan faction. However, the NAP leadership soon decided to bar Bangash and Bacha from simultaneously working in peasant committees while being members of the NAP. As a result, they decided to leave the NAP and found the Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP) on 1 May 1968. The MKP was to become the largest and most militant party with a Marxist orientation in the history of Pakistan. Although Bangash was recognized as principal leader of the MKP, he did not hold any official position until July 1979 when he was elected its president at the party's second congress.
As a trade union organiser, Bangash was founder-president of the Sarhad Trade Union Federation. He also edited the weekly MKP magazine Sanober.[citation needed]
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Afzal Bangash
Mohammad Afzal Khan Bangash (Urdu: محمد افضل خان بنگش; 16 April 1924 – 28 October 1986) was a Pakistani Marxist politician and activist. He was a member of the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) until 1957 and then served as an office-bearer in the National Awami Party (NAP), and later, along with his colleague Sher Ali Bacha, as the co-founder and president of the Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP).
Mohammad Afzal Khan Bangash was born on 16 April 1924, in Kohat, British India. His father was Mohammad Akbar Khan Bangash, an advocate.[citation needed]
Afzal Bangash became one of the leading lawyers of NWFP and during Ayub Khan's rule, he was offered the judgeship of the West Pakistan high court. He declined the offer, choosing instead to concentrate on pleading cases of peasants who were being evicted by Ayub's land reforms.
Bangash joined the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) soon after its formation in 1948 and became a member of its NWFP committee.
In 1957 he was elected as the first General Secretary of the National Awami Party (NAP). He was responsible for organizing the peasant committee in NWFP.[citation needed]
In the 1965 Pakistani presidential election, Bangash served as Fatima Jinnah's provincial chief campaign manager in her campaign against Ayub Khan.[citation needed]
In the 1967 NAP split, Afzal Bangash and Sher Ali Bacha, who were active in peasant committees, decided to follow the Khan Abdul Wali Khan faction. However, the NAP leadership soon decided to bar Bangash and Bacha from simultaneously working in peasant committees while being members of the NAP. As a result, they decided to leave the NAP and found the Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP) on 1 May 1968. The MKP was to become the largest and most militant party with a Marxist orientation in the history of Pakistan. Although Bangash was recognized as principal leader of the MKP, he did not hold any official position until July 1979 when he was elected its president at the party's second congress.
As a trade union organiser, Bangash was founder-president of the Sarhad Trade Union Federation. He also edited the weekly MKP magazine Sanober.[citation needed]
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