The Rise of Religious Fundamentalism in Pakistan – by Hamza Alvi

Courtesy to "Hamza Alavi Internet Archive"

Religious fundamentalism has become a powerful and dangerous force in Pakistan, due mainly to the opportunism of successive political leadership that has pandered to it. Militant sectarian religious groups and parties, led by half-educated and bigoted mullahs,many of them armed to the teeth, are holding our civil society and the state to ransom.

They threaten the very...