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- Title
Factors Behind the Growing Sectarian Violence in the Newly Tribal District Kurram of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Since 9/11 (2001).
- Authors
Khan, Sharif; Khan, Zafar; Ullah, Rahman
- Abstract
Various socio-economic and political factors spur the sectarian violence in Pakistan. This research study investigates factors behind the growing sectarian violence in the wake of war against terror in the tribal belt of Pakistan. The main purpose of this research paper is to know the relationship between terrorism and sectarian violence after US led war on terror. Various local and trans-national terrorist groups have fueled the local sectarianism for their own interest. Terrorists' organization have encouraged and motivated local people for sectarian clashes, which have destroyed the bond of unity between the local sects which were existed before new wave of terrorism. The current wave of sectarian violence cannot be controlled without eradication of terrorism of this region.
- Subjects
KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan); SECTARIAN conflict; WAR on Terrorism, 2001-2009
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 4, p60
- ISSN
2074-2738
- Publication type
Article