Sectarian Violence, Rhetoric Amplification, and Accomplishments: A Case of Students at Tertiary Level
Keywords:
Religious Sect, Religion, Violence, Higher Education, IdeologyAbstract
The sectarianism in Pakistan has had its pragmatic ancestry since the existence of Pakistan. The present time is more critical because Pakistan is facing security threats in the fight against the war on terror. Besides this, sectarianism is prevailing day by day with a grim pace of violence based on rhetoric or some external forces influencing this hegemony and letting the innocent masses become the victims of the consequences. The study was conducted in a public sector university. A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted through a structured questionnaire with a sample size of 200 students (male and female) through a classified random sampling technique. The data was analyzed and the Chi-square test was applied to check the association among variables. The study findings outline that students have a certain degree of bias based on the sectarian divide on both sides. Students were focusing on their studies as a pursuit of self-realization. The findings also indicate that students do interact with each other in studies and social life frequently. The study findings also found the regional ties that evoke sectarianism and voting attitudes of people in the web of sects and same-sect followers have an incisive understanding but the consensus is found among the masses that this violence stems from external forces.
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