ABSTRACT
This paper will focus on the Sunni-Shia conflict at the micro level with a study of Jhang, a city of central Punjab where the Anjuman Sipah-e Sahaba (later renamed Sipah-e Sahaba Pakistan, SSP), an extremist Sunni movement, was founded in September 1985.2 The case study reveals that a multiplicity of factors, most of them not related to religion, have to be taken into account while analysing sectarianism at the grassroots level.
