Sectarianism and role of religious leaders

E-Paper | May 13, 2026

Religious leaders are not playing their role effectively in curbing sectarianism. The people are exploited in the name of religion, and it is easy to convince and mould them by using this tactic.

Our leaders are not trying to find out long-term solutions. Instead, the government is busy maligning and blaming others for its faults.

The people were expecting that the recent press conference of the interior minister would address these issues, but the main focus was on the trial of the former president under Article 6.

I don’t know why our leaders are not bothered about these issues and show no interest in finding solutions.

SOBIA AMIR
Islamabad

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Karachi’s chaos is a mere cover-up act

Regarding your letter on ~ Religious leaders are not playing their role effectively in curbing sectarianism~ in the Daily Dawn dated 27/11/2013, my comments are as follows: This is only possible when whole Pakistani nation will decide to eliminate the root cause of the problem in our Constitution. This was a major mistake which nation has shown their love with the religion and used it as tool to run government and politics. The religion is one's own private matter with God. It is a well known fact that politics and religion cannot be mixed as history has shown us clearly the failures of other nations.I do not understand as to why we are still bend on it. Our Father of the Nation has already rejected the concept of religion into politics. Regards. Latif Khan- London.

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Obaid

Nov 28, 2013 01:19am

The problem is that our leaders should not be religious.

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