Leadership Crisis among the Religious and non-Religious Political Parties in Pakistan

Abstract

As the growing importance of leadership in the worldwide politics, this study is endeavoring to focus on the appealing issue of leadership crisis in the political sphere of Pakistan with special references to religious political parties. The scholarship about the religious political parties in Pakistan and their leadership crises are limited in terms of their cause and effects relationship in the local politics. Therefore, we attempted to engage our readers with the assessment of the leadership crisis among the religious political parties and the aftereffects on Pakistani politics. This study considers quanto-qualitative method of research, following explanatory research design of two phases of mixed-method research approach. The findings of the study show that distance from modern education, conflict among different school of thoughts, vague understanding of Islam, gap between practice and theory, and low education qualifications are some of the basic causes of leadership crisis among Pakistani religious political parties. This leadership crisis affects Pakistani politics in different perspectives, however at the same time acclaimed that this leadership crisis is more common among nonreligious political parties based on character duality, dishonesty and corrupt culprits.