India's The first muslim political party 'All-India Muslim League' (AIML) was founded in Dhaka, British India (now in Bangladesh).

"On 30 December 1906, around 3000 delegates attended a conference of the Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka in which the ban on politics was removed and a motion was moved to form the AIML. The name was proposed by Nawab Khwaja Sir Salimullah Bahadur and seconded by Hakim Ajmal Khan."