In Pakistan too the fanatics and fundamentalists utterly failed to capture the imagination of the people. It then began to disassociate itself from the elections. Similarly many extremist groups among the religious organisations were completely frustrated and gave up electoral politics and set up their own armed units. Today in Pakistan there are more than twenty armed groups fighting for supremacy. It is for this reason that the Pakistani society is witnessing so much violence.
Religious fanaticism can never produce true religiosity and spirituality.
Fanaticism, let us remember, is born out of frustration and anxiety and can never produce positive result. Fanatics are frustrated because people at large refuse to accept what they believe to be true. Fanaticism is bound to result in violence as fanatics think they can succeed only if they forcibly impose their ideas and ideologies. A truly religious person, on the other hand, will opt for persuasion with all possible humility. Thus violence becomes most abhorrent to him.