Sektarianisme di Pakistan: Perbedaan antara revisi

Human Rights Watch juga menyatakan bahwa pada tahun 2011 dan 2012 kelompok minoritas Pakistan, Hindu, Ahmadiyah, dan Kristen "menghadapi ketidakamanan dan penganiayaan yang belum pernah terjadi di negara ini".<ref name=timeline>{{cite news|title=Timeline: Persecution of religious minorities|url=http://dawn.com/2012/11/04/timeline-persecution-of-religious-minorities/|newspaper=DAWN.COM {{!}}|date=4 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=World Report 2012: Pakistan|url=http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012/world-report-2012-pakistan|publisher=Human Rights Watch|accessdate=6 March 2013}}</ref> Serangan terhadap tempat-tempat suci Sufi oleh [[Salafi]] juga telah dilaporkan.<ref name=critical>{{cite web |url=http://criticalppp.com/archives/239339 |title=Sunni Ittehad Council: Sunni Barelvi activism against Deobandi-Wahhabi terrorism in Pakistan – by Aarish U. Khan |accessdate=12 December 2013 |archive-date=2013-01-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123005941/http://criticalppp.com/archives/239339 |dead-url=yes }}</ref><ref name=NYTSufivideo>{{cite news|title=Sufism Under Attack in Pakistan|url=http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/01/06/world/asia/1248069532117/sufism-under-attack-in-pakistan.html|accessdate=21 May 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|author=Produced by Charlotte Buchen|format=video|archive-date=2012-05-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528051803/http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/01/06/world/asia/1248069532117/sufism-under-attack-in-pakistan.html|dead-url=yes}}</ref>

Perkiraan ukuran dua kelompok agama terbesar di Pakistan bervariasi. Menurut [[Perpustakaan Kongres Amerika Serikat]], [[Pew Research Center]], [[Pusat Studi Islam Oxford|Universitas Oxford]], [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]], [[The World Factbook|Factbook]], dan pakar lainnya, penganut [[Islam Syiah di Pakistan]] merupakan 20–25% dari populasi Pakistan.<ref name="LoC"/><ref name="PRC">{{Cite web|url= http://pewforum.org/Muslim/Mapping-the-Global-Muslim-Population%286%29.aspx |title=Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population |accessdate=24 August 2010 |work=[[Pew Research Center]] |date=7 October 2009}}</ref><ref name="PRCPDF">{{Cite book |url=http://pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/Muslimpopulation/Muslimpopulation.pdf |title=Mapping the Global Muslim Population: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Muslim Population |editor=Tracy Miller |year=2009 |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |format=PDF |accessdate=25 August 2010 |archive-date=2013-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130725120239/http://www.pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/Muslimpopulation/Muslimpopulation.pdf |dead-url=yes }}</ref><ref name="Oxford">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1809?_hi=1&_pos=1 |title=Pakistan, Islam in |accessdate=29 August 2010 |work=[[Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies]] |quote=''Approximately 97 percent of Pakistanis are Muslim. The majority are Sunnis following the Hanafi school of Islamic law. Between 20 and 25 percent are Shias, mostly Twelvers.'' |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] }}</ref><ref name="CIA">{{Cite web |url= https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html?countryName=Pakistan&countryCode=pk&regionCode=sas&#pk |title= Religions: Muslim 95% (Sunni 70%, Shia 25%), other (includes Christian and Hindu) 5% |accessdate= 24 August 2010 |work= [[Central Intelligence Agency]] |publisher= [[The World Factbook]] on Pakistan |year= 2010 |archive-date= 2010-05-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100528170605/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html?countryName=Pakistan&countryCode=pk&regionCode=sas&#pk |dead-url= yes }}</ref><ref name="State">{{Cite web|url=http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2008/108505.htm |title=Pakistan – International Religious Freedom Report 2008 |quote=''The majority of Muslims in the country are Sunni, with a Shi'a minority ranging between 20 to 25 percent.'' |work=[[United States Department of State]] |accessdate=28 August 2010}}</ref><ref name="PBS">{{Cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/pilgrimage-to-karbala/sunni-and-shia-the-worlds-of-islam/1737/ |title=Pilgrimage to Karbala – Sunni and Shia: The Worlds of Islam |date=26 March 2007 |publisher=[[PBS]] |accessdate=1 September 2010}}</ref><ref name="CC">{{Cite journal |title=The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future |work=Vali Nasr, Joanne J. Myers |quote=Pakistan has the second largest population of Shia, about 40 million, after Iran.|page=160 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIXoGto8gTEC&pg=PA160&dq=shia+revial+%22about+30+million%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ygJpVIrdAoinyATmwoLQCA&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=shia%20revial%20%22about%2030%20million%22&f=false |date=18 October 2006 }}</ref> sementara sisa 70–75%<ref name="LoC"/><ref name="PRC"/><ref name="PRCPDF"/> adalah [[Islam Sunni|Sunni]].

Hal ini membuat Pakistan sebagai negara dengan komunitas Syiah terbesar kedua setelah [[Iran]] berdasarkan jumlah penganut. (Secara global, [[Islam Syiah]] merupakan 10–20%<ref name="PRC"/><ref name="PRCPDF"/><ref name="PBS"/><ref name="BritShia">{{Cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/540503/Shiite |title=Shīʿite |work=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |quote=''Shīʿites have come to account for roughly [[decile|one-tenth]] of the Muslim population worldwide.'' |year=2010 |accessdate=25 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html |title=Religions |accessdate=29 August 2010 |work=[[CIA]] |publisher=[[The World Factbook]] |quote=''Shia Islam represents 20% of Muslims worldwide...'' |year=2010 |archive-date=2018-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220203407/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2122.html |dead-url=yes }}</ref> dari total umat [[Muslim]], sementara sisa 80%–90% mengamalkan [[Islam Sunni]].<ref name="Britannica">{{Cite web|url= http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/574006/Sunnite |title=Sunnite |accessdate=24 August 2010 |work=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |quote=''They numbered about 900 million in the late 20th century and constituted [[decile|nine-tenths]] of all the adherents of Islām.''|year=2010}}</ref>)