Islamism In Social Services In Pakistan: An Assessment Of Relief Work To The Bomb Blast Victims In Peshawar Pakistan

Abstract

Islamism, often explained as a political ideology of reflecting religion in the
public sphere, has over the years proved to be something more comprehensive.
Social services are an imperative part of working of Islamist groups in various
societies which connects these groups to the general public in various fashions
and therefore halt the way of dominant efforts to corner these religious
groups. Rescue and relief working of Alkhidmat Foundation to the bomb blasts
victims in Peshawar was vital in the perspective of social services and
surpasses the government sector in impact if not in volume. This paper is an
attempt to highlight the working of this charity organization in comparison to
the tax-collecting provincial government in relief provision to the bomb blasts
victims from 2007 to 2013. The period is important since intensity of the
attacks is reflected in this period the most in the backlash of the war-on-terror.
Record files of Home and Tribal Affairs Department of the government of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Alkhidmat Foundation Peshawar were surfed to get
primary data and was contextualized through secondary resources. This
research can work as a source of instigating further research through
provision of primary empirical data for normative contextualization or
theorizing analysis.