In the discourse around sectarian violence in Pakistan, two concerns are prominent. The first is the notion of piety or the intensity of Muslim religious practice as a potential predictor for sectarian and other forms of Islamist violence. The second is the belief that support for some forms of sharia predict this support. As I describe herein, these notions first manifested in the “clash of civilizations” thesis and developed further in the scholarly and policy analytical literatures that sought to explore these linkages through qualitative and quantitative methodologies. In this paper, I use dataset derived from a recent and large national survey of Pakistanis. I use various questions to create indices of both piety as well as support for three dimensions of Sharia, described herein. I use these indices as explanatory variables, along with other explanatory and control variables such as sectarian background, in my regression analysis of support for sectarian violence, my dependent variable. I find that the piety index is a positive predictor of support for sectarian terrorism. at low levels of statistical significance (p