Editing Islam in Pakistan (section)

====Barelvi and Deobandi Sunni Muslims====
The two major Sunni sects in Pakistan are the [[Barelvi movement]] and [[Deobandi movement]]. Statistics regarding Pakistan's sects and sub-sects have been called "tenuous",<ref name="ICG-NEoSViP-2022-8">{{cite book |last1= |first1= |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep42808.7 |title=A New Era of Sectarian Violence in Pakistan |date=2022 |publisher=International Crisis Group |pages=Page 8–Page 14 |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref> but estimates of the sizes of the two groups give a slight majority of Pakistan's population to 50% the Barelvi school, while 20% are thought to follow the Deobandi school of jurisprudence.<ref name=heritage.org-May2009>{{cite web|url=http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/05/Reviving-Pakistans-Pluralist-Traditions-to-Fight-Extremism |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100322140255/http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/05/Reviving-Pakistans-Pluralist-Traditions-to-Fight-Extremism |url-status=unfit |archive-date=March 22, 2010 | title=Reviving Pakistan's Pluralist Traditions to Fight Extremism | last1=Curtis |first1=Lisa |last2=Mullick |first2=Haider |date=4 May 2009 |access-date=2011-07-31 |publisher=[[The Heritage Foundation]]}}</ref><ref name="globalsecurity.org2">{{cite web |last=Pike |first=John |date=5 July 2011 |url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam-barelvi.htm |title=Barelvi Islam |publisher=[[GlobalSecurity.org]] |access-date=25 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031208063014/http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/intro/islam-barelvi.htm |archive-date=8 December 2003 |url-status=live |quote=By one estimate, in Pakistan, the Shias are 18%, Ismailis 2%, Ahmediyas 2%, Barelvis 50%, Deobandis 20%, Ahle Hadith 4%, and other minorities 4%. [...] By another estimate some 15% of Pakistan's Sunni Muslims would consider themselves Deobandi, and some 60% are in the Barelvi tradition based mostly in the province of Punjab. But some 64% of the total seminaries are run by Deobandis, 25% by the Barelvis, 6% by the Ahle Hadith and 3% by various Shiite organisations.}}</ref><ref name="ICG-NEoSViP-2022-8-quote">{{cite book |last1= |first1= |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep42808.7 |title=A New Era of Sectarian Violence in Pakistan |date=2022 |publisher=International Crisis Group |pages=Page 8–Page 14 |quote=Sunni Barelvis are believed to constitute a thin majority of the population |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref>