Religion and Society in the East
The periodical of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. ISSN 2542-1530
Issues
Religiia i obshchestvo na Vostoke, Спецвыпуск (2015), p. 20-29.
The paper renders an outline of the role and place of Islam in Pakistani society, considers the underlying causes for social radicalization of Islam and analyses the causes of militant extremism. The author gives a comprehensive account of the Pakistani political life since 1953 to 2015 carefully looking into internal and external factors that shaped domestic political life and had influence changes in foreign policy and the relations with neighboring Afghanistan and India.
Keywords: Islamization, Islamic radicalization, civil and military governance, Suni- Shi‘a tensions, Taliban militants, counterterrorist operations, foreign and domestic political changes
Volume: 20-29
