The Pakistani youth takes their religion seriously without expressing a desire to impose it on other people. It was revealed in a research study conducted by Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) to examine the thinking patterns of Pakistani youth. The latest issue of ‘Conflict and Peace Studies’, a quarterly research journal of the institute carries the outcome of the survey. According to the PIPS survey of postgraduate students from 16 public and private universities and postgraduate public colleges across the country, 79.4 percent of the respondents thought that the Pakistani Taliban did not serve the cause of Islam. Most of the respondents (85.6 percent) believed that suicide bombings were prohibited in Islam. The majority of the respondents (61.7 percent) supported military operations in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). At the same time, these young Pakistanis overwhelmingly considered religion an important factor in their life (92.4 percent), though 51.7 percent said that they do not offer prayers regularly. A similar majority of the respondents (51.3 percent) endorsed the country's hybrid legal system in which sharia is one, but not the only, source of law. The respondents were almost equally divided on the question of whether religio-political parties should get a chance to rule the country, with 42.6 percent endorsing the idea and 42 percent opposing it. A positive indication noted in the survey was that 77.8 percent of male respondents acknowledged that women had the same rights as men, while 95.9 percent stated that women should receive an education and 75.7 percent that they should have the opportunity to work. But most of the respondents' (65.5 per cent) also thought that women should veil outside their homes. The journal as well carries the five in-depth papers on the phenomenon of radicalization in Pakistan.