دینی سیاسی جماعتوں کی لبرل اور سیکولر فکر کے تناظر میں سیاسی و نظریاتی جدوجہد

Ideological and Political Efforts of Religious Parties: A Critical and Analytical study in the Context of Liberalism and Secularism

Abstract

The article explores the ideological and political struggle of religious political parties of Pakistan like Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadith, and Tehreek-e-Islami (Shia Ulema Council) in contradiction of liberalism and secularism. It is fact that secular ideologies have active role in all social and government institutions of Pakistan to create hurdles in Islamization. These ideologies effects on society, governance, politics, education and economic affairs to wrecked the religious factors. The leadership of religious political parties focus on these ideologies and their methodologies and rejected with logical reasoning that is cause the western ideologies dislike the religious politics.The study judgmentally evaluates how religious political parties have replied to liberalism-secularism whether through election, political alliances, public mobilization, or ideological critique. It also explores the similarities and differences among these parties, brilliant their various denominational and theological circumstances, while classifying the points of convergence in their collective struggle to liberals and seculars.The article critically investigating the mode of resistance, strategies, discourses and multidimensional struggle like spanning ideological, political, and socio-cultural domains. The finding of research demonstrates that controversy between religious parties and liberalism & secularism forces in Pakistan is not through parliamentary legislative debates, confined to theoretical debates but also across social platform, governance, media illustration, and societal transformation, raising fundamental questions about the relationship between religion, politics, and modernity in a Muslim-majority context. These religious political parties Despite their religious and sectarian transformations, these parties join on a shared opposition to secular-liberal models, framing them as threats to Pakistan’s ideological foundations