The National Awami Party (NAP) was a leftist political party in Pakistan. It advocated provincial autonomy, rights on the basis of ethnicity, recognition of ethinicities as 'nations' (as opposed to Islam as a nation) and a non-aligned foreign policy. It was the principal opposition party to the military regime for much of the late 1950s and mid 1960s. In 1967 the party split into two factions.
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