Republican Party (Pakistan)
The Pakistan Republican Party was formed in 23 April 1956, by a break away faction of the Pakistan Muslim League and other politicians supporting the creation of the West Pakistan province, on the instigation of key leaders in the military and civil service. The President of the party was Dr Khan Sahib, Chief Minister of West Pakistan. The main instigator behind this development was Iskander Mirza, the then President of Pakistan. He was the vice president of this party. The Central Parliamentary Leader was Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Party leaders
Punjab
Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Syed Amjad Ali, Sardar Abdul Hamid Khan Dasti, Col. Syed Abid Hussain, Sardar Amir Azam Khan, Syed Jamil Hussain Rizvi, Makhdumzada Syed Hassan Mahmud, Mahr Muhammad Sadiq, Chaudhri Abdul Ghani Ghuman, Begum Khudeja G. A. Khan, Rukan-ud-Daulah Shamsher Jang Ali-Haj Nawab Sajjad Ali Khan.
Sindh
Kazi Fazllullah Ubedullah, Pirzada Abdus Sattar, Mirza Mumtaz Hassan Qizilbash, Haji Mir Ali Ahmed Khan Talpur, Haji Najmuddin Laghari sirewal and Syed Khair Shah Imam Ali Shah.
Dr. Khan Sahib, Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan, Khan Jalaluddin Khan Jalal Baba, Khan Nur Muhammad Khan and Khan Sakhi Jan Khan
Balochistan
Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Jam Mir Ghulam Qadir Khan Sardar Hafeez and Sardar Waleed Umar Rind
Ideology
The party was made up of many civil servants who favored democratic and new forms of government. Civil servants advocated for a stronger central government in the West Pakistan province. Many of the Republican Party’s Military and Civil aligned factions opposed the Islamic right-wing ideology and advocated for Secular forms of government, but at the same time, being a offshoot party of the Conservative Muslim League, the party leaned to the Centre-right.
The Republican Party's whole founding ideology differed from the ideology of the Muslim League. The Republican Party wished to establish an independent West Pakistan province. The hope was for a better sense of unity throughout the country, just as the way East Pakistan was one province. The One Unit Scheme would unite the provinces of Balochistan, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas into one province known as the West Pakistan province, the One Unit Scheme ideology of removing inequality between East and West Pakistan by promoting the One Unit program was founded by several statesmen mainly from the Republican Party, and under Mohammad Ali Bogra.