Pakistan has been grappling with a growing concern in recent years: political polarization. This phenomenon witnessed the expansion of the chasm between right and left-wing politics, along with the rising levels of intolerance of the society towards such differences; this has become one of the most critical problems to face the Pakistani society today.

Indeed, this split has many roots; however, the core differences between the various political parties cannot be ignored. It seems that to advance their party, instead of advancing the political agendas of the greater nation, so many parties indulge their term in power concentrating on their benefit and employing the techniques of polarization to gain the support of the population. They work more in the political realm and cunningly mobilize the ethnic, religious, and regional aspects to stir up people and form fractions favorable for their political purposes. The party spokespersons when expressing media opinions and interacting with the electorate continue to employ further inflammatory words and repudiate the opponents, with one side accusing the other of being ‘unpatriotic.’

The anti-corruption campaign has often involved an accusation of corruption and the failure of those in power to invoke equal allegations of corruption against their rivals. They do not address the current problems and give people false hopes but it also serves to undermine people’s confidence in the political process. This seems to be the situation as parties fight from the pulpit and bar, the public finds itself amidst accusations and counter-accusations, writhing in the reality that the situation is past the point of the truth.

This new form of extremism added to the complexity of the political situation in Pakistan and the region as a whole. The expansion........

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