Pakistan's National Identity Founded for religious purposes in 1946, Pakistan is a relatively new country that has grown very quickly. Pakistan's national identity has been undermined by the separatist religious factions of the Shi'iah and Sunni Muslim clans and enhanced by the use of madrasas, schools that teach and support Sunni Islam. Jinna, who was the father of Pakistan , wanted a state in which all religions were tolerated and to accommodate people who wanted to live …showed first 75 words of 421 total…

…showed last 75 words of 421 total…After the war the soldiers from the madrasas that had been fighting in Afghanistan returned to Pakistan looking for conflict after having the soldier mentality for such a long time. This rivalry between the Sunni's and the Shi'iah's does a great deal to undermine Pakistan's national identity and it will not end until these two groups can stop viewing each other as Sunni or Shi'iah but rather seeing themselves as the united Muslims of Pakistan.