ABSTRACT

Pakistan is a country with vivid identities. People here are as diverse as in any other country. It is a multi-religious, multi-lingual and multi-ethnic country. People speaking dierent languages and following dierent sects within Islam are considered to be people of dierent ethnicities. People concern themselves with ethnic identity and not so much with national identity. Thus this kind of diversity often leads to ethnic politics or rather ethnic conicts within a particular country. And this possibility increases if these ethnic groups are geographically concentrated. This is exactly what has happened in the case of Pakistan.