ROLE OF MOSQUE IN PROMOTING RELIGIOUS POLITICS IN

PAKISTAN
Shamshad Shareef
M.Phil Scholar, Department of Islamic Studies
University of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
alimaheenali86@gmail.com

Abstract
Since Pakistan's beginnings as a country for Muslims of British India in 1947, Islam has been
the one string making a national personality in a state generally partitioned along ethnic,
common, social, religious, class, and etymological lines. Regular citizen and military
pioneers have utilized Islam to pick up authenticity for their power and as tool of state
arrangement, fortifying the part of religious gatherings in legislative issues and society.
Since the 1980s, after Pakistan's contribution in furnishing the mujahideen to battle against
the Soviets in Afghanistan and the Pakistani armed force's proceeded with help for Islamist
aggressors, Islam has taken a radical hand over in Pakistan. Today, Pakistan has risen as a
middle for worldwide jihad and the principle asylum for Taliban contenders at war with
U.S.- drove powers in Afghanistan. Pakistan additionally faces its own particular
precariousness and viciousness as activist gatherings focus on the state. The death of
Punjab's senator and the minorities minister in 2011 increased worries over the danger
postured by religious fanaticism. The May 1, 2011, killing of al-Qaeda pioneer Osama
canister Laden by U.S. powers in a Pakistani town prompted crisp worries over retaliatory
assaults on Pakistan by Islamist fear gatherings. However, the country did its best through its
armed forces to reverse the history wheel. Talibanization has been controlled but at the same
time, the religious political parties have taken a nap in the beds of country’s establishment.
From Mutahidda Majlas-e-Amal (MMA) to Tehrik-e-Labbaik Ya Rasool Alllah Pakistan
(TLP) the country has felt a rapid division in the political arena on the religious lines to an
extent that religious political parties now have the power to dictate and force their own
wishes on the mighty military, judiciary and the government of Pakistan. This has been noted
that the mosque has been the key change agent in all these activities. This research, very new
and never done before in Pakistan, aims to identify that what role the mosque is playing in
promoting religious politics in Pakistan.

Key Words: Religious Politics, Political Islam, Mosque and Politics