Abstract
The fire of terrorism, ignited by 9/11, cast chronic effects on overall Pakhtun society, including the religious minorities who remained most hard-hit, as terrorist groups full of cut-throats fanatics, particularly in Pakistan, justified their brutalities through religion. Their fear of being shot, slaughtered, or victimized through hooting, verbal abuses, linguistic slogans, and physical attacks, pushed them to silence, seclusion, and sometimes leaving their jobs and abodes. The researchers witnessed the clouds of fear and mistrust looming large over their faces inside district Kohat, which is home to a plethora of diverse religious minorities. Although the intensity of terrorism has subsided now, yet the feelings of mistrust and avoidance survive between the majority and minorities. The researchers undertook this study to explore the factors that can restore minorities of Kohat to their previous pro-active social role and harmonize their relations and communication with the majority. Using the grounded theory method and adopting purposive sampling, the researchers interviewed 13 Christians, 7 Hindus, 6 Sikhs, and to answer some questions, 5 Muslim scholars were also interviewed. A semi-structured interview guide was used until the saturation of data. The basic factors working behind a lack of communication, contention, and mistrust were identified and categorized as harmony, pluralism, mutual respect, attachment, community response, community participation, and rapport.
Jan Alam, Syed Shujaat Ali, Niaz Muhammad. (2020) Religious Minorities as victims to Terrorism: Socio-linguistic and Social bonds for reclaiming them in District Kohat, Pakistan, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Volume-12, Issue-1.
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