Editing Deobandi movement (section)

=== Pakistan ===
{{further|Islamism in Pakistan|Sectarian violence in Pakistan}}
Of Pakistan's estimated 230 million Muslims, some 40-50% or 80-100 million [[Pakistani Muslims]] consider themselves Deobandi, forming majority in [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]], [[Balochistan|Balochistan,]] [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punab]] and [[Sindh]]. It is the most followed Movement among [[Pashtuns]], [[Baloch people|Balochs]], [[Punjabis]] and [[Sindhis]]<ref name="RohanBedi">{{citation|first1=Rohan |last1=Bedi |url=http://www.pvtr.org/pdf/RegionalAnalysis/SouthAsia/Madrassa%20_IDSS%20_%20_FINAL_.pdf |title=Have Pakistanis Forgotten Their Sufi Traditions? |place=Singapore |publisher=International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at [[Nanyang Technological University]] |date=April 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102091018/http://www.pvtr.org/pdf/RegionalAnalysis/SouthAsia/Madrassa%20_IDSS%20_%20_FINAL_.pdf |archive-date=2 November 2013|page=3 }}.<br />This estimates that 15% of Pakistani Muslims are Deobandi and 20% Shia, which equates to about 19% of Pakistan's Sunni Muslims being Deobandi.</ref> According to Heritage Online, nearly 65% of the total seminaries ([[Madrasah]]) in Pakistan are run by Deobandis, whereas 25% are run by [[Barelvi]]s, 6% by [[Ahl-i Hadith]] and 3% by various [[Shia]] organizations. The Deobandi movement in Pakistan was a major recipient of funding from Saudi Arabia from the early 1980s up until the early 2000s, where after this funding was diverted to the rival Ahl-i Hadith movement.<ref name="Sushant Sareen">{{cite book |first=Sushant |last=Sareen |title=The Jihad Factory: Pakistan's Islamic Revolution in the Making |page=282 |location=New Delhi |publisher=Har Anand Publications |year=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uSxZhFenUusC|isbn=978-8124110751 }}</ref> Having seen Deoband as a counterbalance to Iranian influence in the region, Saudi funding is now strictly reserved for the Ahl-i Hadith.<ref name="Sushant Sareen" />

Deobandi-affiliated groups such as the [[Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan|TTP]], [[Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan|SSP]], [[Lashkar-e-Taiba|Let]], etc. have a militant character<ref name="deobandi1">{{cite book |editor1-last=Syed |editor1-first=Jawad |editor2-last=Pio |editor2-first=Edwina |editor3-last=Kamran |editor3-first=Tahir |editor4-last=Zaidi |editor4-first=Abbas |year=2016 |title=Faith-Based Violence and Deobandi Militancy in Pakistan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Mx5DQAAQBAJ&pg=PA371 |location=London |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |page=371 |doi=10.1057/978-1-349-94966-3 |isbn=978-1-349-94965-6 |lccn=2016951736 }}</ref> and have [[Persecution of Sufis|attacked and destroyed Sufi sites]] holy to Sunni Muslims of the Barelvi movement, such as [[Data Darbar]] in [[Lahore]], [[Abdullah Shah Ghazi]]'s tomb in [[Karachi]], Khal Magasi in Balochistan, and [[Rahman Baba]]'s tomb in [[Peshawar]].<ref name="deobandi1"/>