{"id":622,"date":"2014-11-25T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/?p=622"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:10:37","slug":"pluralism-can-counter-sectarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/pluralism-can-counter-sectarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralism can counter sectarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"grid__item one-whole\">\n<div class=\"push-half--sides push--top\">\n<p>KARACHI: Sectarianism within the world of Islam has moved beyond religious arguments and is now about the balance and distribution of power. Whether in Pakistan or the Arab world, there can be no solution to sectarian problems unless a pluralist conception of society is promoted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"grid__item three-quarters palm--one-whole\">\n<article class=\"story story--single push-half\">\n<div class=\"story__body soft--top\">\n<p>These views were expressed here on Saturday by acclaimed scholar and author Dr Vali Reza Nasr, dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, United States. He was speaking at the Yohsin Distinguished Lecture on \u2018The growing role of sectarianism in Muslim politics globally and in Pakistan\u2019, organised by Habib University.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1146246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read complete article at <em>Dawn <\/em><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Sectarianism within the world of Islam has moved beyond religious arguments and is now about the balance and distribution of power. Whether in Pakistan or the Arab world, there can be no solution to sectarian problems unless a pluralist conception of society is promoted. These views were expressed here on Saturday by acclaimed scholar<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/pluralism-can-counter-sectarianism\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-press-release"},"acf":{"home_page_thumbnail":"","category_select":"","name_overwrite":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pluralism can counter sectarianism - HU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dr. Vali Reza Nasr stresses that promoting pluralism is key to resolving sectarian conflict in Muslim societies, at Habib University\u2019s Yohsin Lecture.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/pluralism-can-counter-sectarianism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pluralism can counter sectarianism - HU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Vali Reza Nasr stresses that promoting pluralism is key to resolving sectarian conflict in Muslim societies, at Habib University\u2019s Yohsin Lecture.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/pluralism-can-counter-sectarianism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Habib University | News &amp; 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