Islam is the religion of all but a small percentage of the district's population. Among the Muslims almost all subscribe to the Sunni faith.

The Pathans are more religious as compared to the other major ethnic groups. They strictly practice the religious teachings with respect to daily prayers, fasting, acquisition of knowledge of the Holy Quran, etc. In the on-going Tableghi drive (preaching of Islam), they are prominent participants.

The Baloch are also believers in Islam, but they are not as devout as the Pathans. The younger Baloch are, however, more religious-minded than the older generation. Similarly the young and the old Baloch of today, taken as a whole, follow the Islamic teachings more widely and strictly than their forefathers. Their overall response to the movement for the revival of Islam has gone on for the last two decades or so. Nowadays, they are practising Muslims on a far larger scale then half a century ago.

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