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Hinduism is the second largest religious affiliation in Pakistan after Islam. [3] Though Hinduism was one of the dominant faiths in the region a few centuries ago, [4] [5] [6] Hindus accounted for just 2.17% of Pakistan's population (approx 5.2 million people) according to the 2023 Pakistani census. [7]
Amb temples in Khushab district. The Hindu, Buddhist and Jain architectural heritage of Pakistan is part of a long history of settlement and civilization in Pakistan. The Indus Valley civilization collapsed in the middle of the second millennium BCE and was followed by the Vedic Civilisation, which extended over much of northern India and Pakistan.
Islam is the state religion of Pakistan, and about 96–98% of Pakistanis are Muslim. [9] Pakistan has the second largest number of Muslims in the world after Indonesia. [109] The majority are Sunni (estimated at 85-90%), [17] [18] with an estimated 10–15% Shia. [17] [18] [19] [110] A PEW survey in 2012 found that 6% of Pakistani Muslims were ...
Punjabi Hindus are adherents of Hinduism who identify ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Punjabis and are natives of the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. Punjabi Hindus are the second-largest religious group of the Punjabi community, after the Punjabi Muslims. While Punjabi Hindus mostly inhabit the Indian ...
Smaller minority Muslim populations in Pakistan include Quranists, nondenominational Muslims. [22] There are also two Mahdi'ist based creeds practised in Pakistan, namely Mahdavia and Ahmadiyya, [23] the latter of whom are considered by the constitution of Pakistan to be non-Muslims; they jointly constitute around 1% of the Muslim population. [24]
The partition of India was the partition of British India led to the creation of the dominions of Pakistan (that later split into the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh) and India (later Republic of India). The Indian Independence Act 1947 had decided 15 August 1947, as the appointed date for the partition ...
Hinduism in Punjab, Pakistan. Hinduism is a minority religion in Punjab province of Pakistan followed by about 0.19% of its population. Punjab has the second largest number of Hindus in Pakistan after Sindh. [ 3 ] Hinduism is followed mainly in the Southern Punjab districts of Rahim Yar Khan and Bahawalpur.
The History of Pakistan prior to its independence in 1947 spans several millennia and covers a vast geographical area known as the Greater Indus region. [ 1 ] Anatomically modern humans arrived in what is now Pakistan between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. [ 2 ] Stone tools, dating as far back as 2.1 million years, have been discovered in the ...