Kompromat
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As a outsider, viewing Pakistan primarily through the western media, supplemented by my readings and interchanges here on PDF, I fear that such "right wing goons" have far too much power in Pakistani society. I worry that they are powerful enough to ruin Pakistan for decades. I want to believe that "no one in their right mind can agree with them" but the evidence of the violence and mayhem they cause contradicts you. SOMEONE must take they seriously, and even seriously enough to seek martyrdom in the name of their fatwas.
Your assessment is not too out of place. I would like to correlate this problem to a cancer. The extremists in our society have gotten louder from 1979 onwards due to subsequent wars from 1979-1989, Afghan civil war from 1991-1996, Taliban rule in Afghanistan from 1998-2001 and American invasion from 2001-2014-15.
Extremists in any society get louder and grow powerful to spread terror in the time of regional instability. Afghanistan and Pakistan are literally a single country with two names as the border is non existent. So whatever hits the fan over there, hits the floor down here too.
The problem we are talking about can be fixed, but it cannot be done overnight. The public sentiment is boiling against them, their ridiculous fatwas only fuel the anger against them. Pakistanis vent their anger at the right wing at the ballot box as no right wing party has EVER been able to secure more than 6% of the popular vote. How this can be translated into destroying their street/violent power will need time and careful planning. As the law and order situation in Pakistan improves the focus will shift to them and soon enough they would be at the receiving end of the Pakistani stick since bigger threats would no longer be present.