PRESS STATEMENT

After the public knowledge of 11 new demands from America, there is a sentence on the tongues of every Pakistani "Cowardly Americans! How dare you?"  These humiliating and outrageous requests are the consequence of the open treachery of the Musharraf government. These demands and concessions are similar to the ones that America generally extracts from occupied countries like Afghanistan and Iraq in order to grant complete amnesty to its solders. Have matters become so bad that America can adopt an attitude towards world's strongest Muslim state as if it were a weak and enslaved country? It only became possible when Musharraf handed Pakistan over to the Americans without firing a single shot, merely using the threat that US will bomb Pakistan back into the stone age.

The politically aware realise that neither was America able to fight an open war then and nor is it now. America knows that a nuclear Pakistan is capable of delivering a blow that neither the American administration nor American public could cope with. America could not even subdue weak states such as Afghanistan and Iraq, whereas conquering a stronger Pakistan is completely out of question. The situation and events have once again proved that America can never be a friend to the Muslims – no matter how much milk is given to the snake it will bite at the earliest opportunity. The Pakistani people demand that the government abandons the American war and ends provision of food and fuel to the American forces under the guise of logistics support.  They also demand an immediate end to the military action against fellow Muslims, upon American dictation. To end the implementation of colonialist plans, the embassies of these countries must be closed down. And in order to ensure complete liberation from colonialism, the existing capitalist system must be replaced by the implementation of the Islamic system through the establishment of the Khilafah.

Naveed Butt

The Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir  in Pakistan                                    
2 Rabi' al-Awwal 1429 AH                           
10th Mar 2008   CE