Religious Ideology: Origin of Transnational Terrorism in Pakistan

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the causes and international links of religious groups that are supporting their sect fellows in dissemination and acknowledgement of their specific rigid sectarian religious ideas that may contrary to the other sect ideology. Iran and Saudi Arabia play as a leading actor in the promotion of transnational religious extremist ideologies in Pakistan. Later Afghanistan and Central Asian states also play their role in the propagation of polarization on the basis of sects. It is posing severe security threats to individuals, society and the government. After the incident of 9/11 the emergence of different terrorist international Islamic networks, such as Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood etc., which are helping to disseminate a specific religious ideology across the world and have a great impact on the pre-existing religious groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This article gives an overview of the role of transnational militant Islamic groups in Pakistan. It also explains how they use religious ideology for transnational terrorism in Pakistan. This paper also highlights the role of Taliban in Pakistan and formation of strange relationship between different religious groups and ethnic groups. When the religious tension increases the ethnic tension decreases and this relationship is vice versa. It also makes suggestions for curbing transnational terrorism in Pakistan.