In Pakistan, religious extremism is on the rise.
Channel: Media World 247
Date: 2022-02-17

Fawad Chaudhry, Pakistan's Information Minister, stated last month that the Pakistani state and government are unprepared to deal with the country's burgeoning extremism.

"Many people believe that the corrective measures done by us [the government] are insufficient, but the truth is that neither the government nor the state is fully prepared to combat extremism," Fawad remarked at a conference hosted by the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies in Islamabad.

Following a series of recent defeats that led the state to make deals with right-wing Islamist groups of various sects, Fawad has admitted that increasing extremism in Pakistan poses a severe threat to the country's stability.

Last month, the government was pressured into permitting the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), a Barelvi Islamic party, to operate.