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Islam in Pakistan: what Wikipedia removed

This article covers Islam’s role in Pakistan, including General Zia-ul-Haq’s Islamization drive. Through 2015 the opening said Zia nurtured the jihadist ideology in defining Pakistan as an Islamic state. Today the opening is a demographic breakdown of Sunni and Shia populations, and jihad appears three times in the body rather than the opening. A reader arriving now learns Pakistan’s sectarian percentages and not what the opening once said about Zia’s promotion of jihadist ideology.

The word “disputed” appeared 1 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2015. Today it appears nowhere in the article at all, references included. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The sidebar list of related topics was reworded, its substance kept.
  • The description of Pakistan as a ‘global center for political Islam’ was cut from the opening.
  • The note that whether Ahmadis count as Muslim is disputed was cut.
  • The sentence crediting Zia-ul-Haq with nurturing the jihadist ideology while defining Pakistan as an Islamic state was cut.
  • The religion demographics sentence was reworded, its substance kept.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17017741):

File:Badshahi mosque from outside.JPG The Badshahi Masjid , literally the ‘Royal Mosque’, was built in 1674 by Aurangzeb . It is one of Lahore ‘s best known landmarks, and epitomizes the beauty and grandeur of the Mughal era About 97 percent of all Pakistanis are Muslims . Official documentation states that Sunni Muslims constitute 77 percent of the population and that adherents of Shi’a Islam make up an additional 20 percent. Christians , Hindus , and members of other religions each account for about 1 percent of the population.

2025 (revision 1298187664):

Role and impact of Islam in Pakistan Islam in Pakistan Sunni Muslims (90.0%) Shia Muslims (10.0%) Other topics Ahle Sunnat Movement in South Asia Muslim nationalism in South Asia ( Pakistani ) Muslim chronicles for Indian history Islam portal Pakistan portal v t e Islam is the largest and the state religion of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan . Pakistan has over 231.69 million adherents of Islam (excluding the administrative territory of Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan ) making it the second-largest Muslim population . As much as 85-90% of the population follows Sunni Islam . Most Pakistani Sunni Muslims belong to the Hanafi school of jurisprudence, which is represented by the Barelvi and …

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