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Title Issues and Challenges of Political Intolerance in Political Parties of Pakistan

Author(s) Muhammad Arshad Warsi

Abstract Political parties by means of democratic institutions are liable to perform the functions of participation, representation, integration and capacity building of political workers etc. In recent years, political intolerance gets boom and reducing the spaces for political leadership up to level that they can’t move and share their ideas openly. With the assumption that political leadership are taking part in promoting of intolerance in political culture, this research aimed to explore and analyse the issues and challenges of intolerance to Pakistani political parties. For this purpose, two parties, main ruling and main opposition party were selected i.e. Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N). To achieve the aims and the objectives of the study, the researcher adopted the qualitative research method to gather the maximum in depth data through semi structured interviews of eleven party leaders and public representatives (MNA, MPA and Senators) of PTI and PML-N. The view point (data) collected was analysed with a thematic analysis and found many overlapping, important and less important themes. The key findings of the study are three main themes or issues i.e. lack of institutionalization, lack of democratic culture and lack of political education, with five sub themes and six sub to sub themes having less saliency. The themes showed that political parties are lacking in introducing and implementing of standardize systems (written laws, rules and regulations) of Accountability, Dispute Resolution, Counter Hate Speech and Participation. Both parties need to define a selection criteria and procedure for nomination of representatives and introduce some decentralization. Parties need to introduce intra party political education/training system for capacity building so that they could promote political tolerance to achieve their role and responsibility effectively.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Management Sciences

Department Governance and Public Policy

Language English

Publication Date 2019-06-19

Subject Research Thesis M.Phil

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