Highway to Heaven:

This is the question which is being asked at different level "How Sectarian violence is turning into violence against the state? It will not be exaggeration to say that the state lack the capacity to curb or even control sectarianism. We have long history of sectarianism but it turned violent when General Zia-ul-Haq adopted the religious orthodoxy. This orthodoxy fragmented the society. Now, people having bombs and guns seeing Islam through their sectarian lenses, instead of seeing their sects thorough the Islamic lens. In recent years sectarian tensions has arisen in different parts of the country. There were horrible incidents of sectarian clashes in different parts of the Punjab but interior Sindh which is considered a peaceful land regarding the coexistence of different sects has seen arisen of sectarian clashes. According to some sources from the law-enforcement agencies, sectarian organizations pick their potential strikers at an early age and then religious seminaries played an important role in their training. It is being injected in their tiny brains that the people those who belong to another sects are not Muslims. Teachers verbally brainwash their pupils. According to Punjab police source that religious and sectarian terrorist groups could have collected as much as 650 million rupees as ransom only from Islamabad. It’s a high time and government with the consultation of opposition draft a comprehensive policy to get rid of this menace of sectarianism and save our next generation from this atmosphere of hatred and bloodshed.

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