What is the trend of intersect marriages in Pakistan?

What have i observed/where do they take place?
Yup, they happen alright. and usually i have seen them in families who dont care much. who value other things more than the sectarian beliefs. like job, beauty, compatibility, personality etc. i have seen a couple of love marriage cases too, but they ended up alienated by the family (the families came to terms later on, you know maa maa hoti hai).

What do i think?
intersectarian marriage is not for everybody. Ignorance is a bliss sometimes, if you dont know what your sect entails (and i mean the hardcore elements), you can go easily with such a marriage. But if youre cautious about them, things can go disastrous. because lets face it, certain core values and even practices of our different sects are in direct opposition to each other. and then there comes the children, what to teach them!!


and those who think they dont bother with sects.. Well!! its a difficult scenario.. if you unfold your core beliefs and values, you end up practically with one of the sects, except that you dont proclaim it (which is kinda good).

I dun really know about how often such marriages take place but I have seen very rare.
Well, I dun think sects shud be an issues in the society, we shud get over the studio type thoughts, Islam does not encourage these things, At the time of Prophet Muhammad SAW, these sects weren’t there but unfortunately we have them now.

Coming to the question, marriages are sensitive issue in our “society”, they are more of cultural than to be Islamic, in our society, people believe the marriages are not only about a guy and a girl marrying each another but it is also important for their families too, that topic also has some pros and cos but let’s not go there : )

It depends on various factors like family background, educational level of families, surrounding environment etc. Some people are open minded enough to accept the other person/family with their beliefs and some dun like to get marry outta family/cast, so intersect marriage is out of question for them, Well that’s again another issue and let’s not go there.
As far as What I think of intersect marriages is concern, I’m not in favor of them, they hardly work from what I have seen n observed. They create long term problems
-Lack of acceptance, Unfortunately We don’t have this sense of accepting each another, like we make so much issues on silly things normally when it comes to marriage then change of belief could be big hurdle.
-Kids and their belief - Kids would be so confused with what belief to follow? For example, the way sunni and shia pray is a bit deferent, the number of namaz they both have is different, so they would get confused. And it is a big deal for me at least.

I take it that by sects you mainly mean Shiite and Sunni, It depends mostly on how liberal or moderate a family is to allow such a union or otherwise, but from observation most of the inter-sect marriages are Love Marriages, Wait! I am not implying anything, what I meant is that in general people do not prefer an inter-sect marriage (to spare themselves any unnecessary drama, I am guessing) which looks kinda justified to me, you can not take such chances on such decisions considering there are lives of two individuals and who knows how many more involved, so while looking for a counterpart for their children, parents prefer to look around in the same sect so naturally most arranged marriages are same sect. but I totally believe that there shouldn't be any hesitation to marry intersect if you really like someone, coz who has seen the future anyway?