Proud To Be a Pakistani

Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi

About 97% of the Pakistanis are Muslim. The Muslims belong to different schools which are called Madhahib (singular: Madhhab) i.e. schools of jurisprudence (also 'Maktab-e-Fikr' (School of Thought) in Urdu). Almost 80% of Pakistani Muslims are Sunni Muslims and there is sizeable minority 20% Shi'a Muslims. Nearly all Pakistani Sunni Muslims belong to the Hanafi school with a small Hanbali school represented by Wahabis and Ahle Hadith. The Hanafi school includes the Barelvis and Deobandis schools. Although the majority of Pakistani Shi'a Muslims are Twelver, there is a significant Ismaili minority, composed of both Nizari and Mustaali.

The Religious breakup of the country is as follows:

• Islam 173,000,000 (97%) (nearly 80% are Sunni Muslims and 20% are Shi'a Muslims).
• Hinduism 3,200,000 (1.85%)
• Christianity 2,800,000 (1.6%)
• Sikhs Around 20,000 (0.04%)

as well as much smaller numbers of Parsis, Ahmadis, Buddhists, Jews, Bahá'ís, and Animists (mainly the Kalasha of Chitral). Pakistan is the second-most populous Muslim-majority country^[39] and also has the second-largest Shi'a population in the world.^[40]