Nizam-e-Islam Party

[2] The party was founded in the city of Kishoreganj in 1952, by the Islamic scholars of erstwhile East Bengal, Pakistan as an offshoot of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.

[3] The Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, founded in 1919, was a political body of Islamic scholars predominantly belonging to the Deobandi movement that opposed the partition of India.

The party swiftly gained prominence in Muslim-majority Bengal, in comparison to the modernist-capitalist Muslim League, because its members were composed of popular Islamic scholars.

In the lead-up to the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election, the party eventually joined the United Front coalition which challenged the Muslim League.

Farid Ahmad became East Bengal's Minister of Labour, Abdul Wahab Khan became the Speaker of the Assembly, and the ministries of Law, Land and Education were also under the Nizam-e-Islam party.

In 1969, a central election was held within the party, with Muhammad Shafi Deobandi as chief advisor, Zafar Ahmad Usmani as president, Athar Ali as executive president, Abdul Wahab Khan and Mustafa al-Madani as vice-presidents, Ehtisham ul Haq Thanvi as qaid (chief leader) and Siddiq Ahmad as secretary-general.

A lengthy delay in the transfer of power to the Awami League in Bengal by the central government in West Pakistan, eventually led to the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War.