Adverse Implications

In retrospect, Pakistani society was not extremist per se but in view of the factors listed above, pockets of extremism existed gradually plunging the country deeper into the web of extremism. The failure of successive governments in Pakistan to understand the adverse implications of allowing religion to be used for political purposes deepened intolerance and militancy in society. Unfortunately, issues which caused extremism and frustration in various segments of population were neither properly understood nor any serious effort was made by state authorities to address these issues.

Consequently, Pakistan which was a new state and had enormous potential to emerge as progressive, modern and democratic country's Muslim world missed such an opportunity and ‘plunged into an endless predicament of extremism and violence.