Association of Socio-Cultural Interaction of Christians and Sikhs Minorities with Muslims Majority in Swat and Peshawar, Pakistan

Abstract

This study investigates the problems of adjustment, discrimination and oppression
faced by minorities living together for long in the districts of Peshawar and Swat of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The study highlights the implicit factors and reasons
for social inequalities, violence, oppression, and marginalisation of minorities. It brings
into the limelight all the facts about the adjustment problem of the minorities in the
target districts and thus resolves all the misconceptions being created. Five-level Likert
scale was used to measure the variable, and a chi-square test was applied to see the
association level of the independent variable with the dependent variable. Based on the
Sekaran table, a total of 372 respondents were selected from the local minorities to
analyse the adjustment problems confronted by minorities in their social and cultural
activities. The study adopted a quantitative method of inquiry. The findings show that
Christians and Sikhs usually publicly take part in social and cultural activities with the
Muslim majority, indicating strong social interaction between majorities and minorities
in the targeted area. The study recommended promoting interfaith trust between
majority and minority for the sake of smoothly running of life.