In the broader context I firmly believe that religion and politics should not be mixed together. The politicians who ruled last 40 years have deliberately kept our masses uneducated and illiterate because literacy can provide liberating thoughts, but for them it would have been an end of their family dynasties. Later on different occasions different mullah's, mulana's, imam masjids, religious personalities start using religion as a tool to achieve their political aspirations.
This illiteracy transcends into religious domains as well, we in Pakistan have a habit of not to question these personalities or the narratives they tow. Islam and our Prophet PBUH encouraged us to go seek knowledge; some naive friends believe this knowledge in a particular context only rather it is an overall way of life. Allah SWT labeled you as “Ashraf-ul-Makhlooqat” (the noblest of creation), not so that you can go around like a headless chicken and whatever someone tells you. Qur'an is the ultimate message of Allah SWT, most of these masses do not even know the message, reading/memorizing it has nothing to do with understanding it.
This notion that the number of people came to his janaza means that he was on the right path are delusions of grandeur. Most of our masses are tamashbeen type, if there was any mechanism to conduct a survey of these masses; I can bet 95% of them might not be considered as true muslims.
It doesn't matter what PML N, PPP or PTI thinks or believes in or requires at one particular time. There should be a strict boundary when it comes to matter of state and basic human rights. No one is above the law, No one can declare terrorists/murderers as Ghazi's or Saints(except the state), Islam or any other religion cannot be used for a political purpose; Any mosque, church, Temple cannot be involved in any political activity. No group of individuals can stand up one day and control the rights of other citizens/residents. Protest and Processions should have an established code of conduct anyone breaking it should be dealt immediately with highest state conviction, no matter if he claims to be the biggest "ashiq-e-rasool" or anything else for that matter.