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Islam is the state religion of Pakistan, and about 95–98% of Pakistanis are Muslim. [9] Pakistan has the second largest number of Muslims in the world after Indonesia. [85] The majority are Sunni (estimated at 85-90%), [17] [18] with an estimated 10–15% Shia. [17] [18] [19] [86] A PEW survey in 2012 found that 6% of Pakistani Muslims were ...
Islam by country. Islam is the largest and the state religion of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan has over 236 Million adherents of Islam (including the administrative territory of Azad Kashmir [ 6] and Gilgit Baltistan [ 7] ). [ 8][ 9] As much as 90% of the population follows Sunni Islam.
Pakistan has a population estimated at 224,418,238, as of 2021. In the early 2000s, it was estimated that 96.5% of Pakistanis were Muslims (75-95% Sunni, 5-20% Shia, and 0.22-2.2% Ahmadi, who are not permitted to call themselves Muslims - see Religious discrimination in Pakistan), while the remainder are Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, members of other faiths, and agnostics and atheists.
Ahmadis in Pakistan have often come under religious persecution and discrimination. [5] According to a Pew Research Center, only 7% of Pakistanis consider Ahmadis as Muslims. [6] The Ahmadiyya movement originated in the city of Qadian. Following the independence of Pakistan, Ahmadis moved to the city of Rabwah to establish their headquarters.
Pakistan was founded on the basis of securing a sovereign homeland for the Muslims of the subcontinent to live in self-determination. [21] The idea of Pakistan had received overwhelming popular support among British Indian Muslims, especially those in the Presidencies and provinces of British India where Muslims were in a minority such as U.P. [22]
[13] [4] [5] [c] [6] [d] During the mid-20th century an attempt was made to force a few Kalasha villages in Pakistan to convert to Islam, but the people fought the conversion and, once official pressure was removed, the vast majority resumed the practice of their own religion. [10]
The mourning of Muharram ( Arabic: عزاء محرم, romanized : ʿAzāʾ Muḥarram; Persian: عزاداری محرم, romanized : ʿAzādārī-i Muḥarram) is a set of religious rituals observed by Shia Muslims during the month of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar. These annual rituals commemorate the death of Husayn ibn Ali ...
Muslim-majority Pakistan is home to 4.4 million Hindus, just 2.14% of the population, and Hinglaj Mata is one of the few Hindu sites that continues to draw large numbers of pilgrims every year ...