PRESS STATEMENT

Musharraf can pardon an Indian spy that has been sentenced to death, but was the crime of the innocent children of Lal masjid so horrible that he could not rest until he had burnt them alive? For America and Musharraf the demand to implement Islam is an unpardonable crime, deserving of death sentence and imprisonment. The purpose of freeing the Indian spy is to establish Indian supremacy and give the world the impression that Pakistan is so weak that it is will undertake any desperate measure to make friends with.

Moreover, such so-called confidence measures are in order to bury the Kashmir issue for ever and another step to make Pakistan a part of Greater India (Akund Baharat). This incidence is yet another example of how Musharraf, with his severe inferiority complex, is ready to bow his head at a moments notice before America, but stiffens his neck with arrogance when killing Muslims in Swat and Wana. We ask the Minster of Human Rights, Ansar Barni, if a convicted Indian spy is so deserving of human rights, why is it that he could liberate a single missing person amongst the hundreds of Muslims languishing in the torture cells of Musharraf. Hizb ut-Tahrir has previously warned the people of Musharraf's deceit on behalf of America and inshAllah will continue to fulfill its responsibility. And it is the responsibility of the people, particularly the people of power, to join with Hizb and re-establish the Khilafah so that the Muslims are elevated from a position of disgrace and humiliation to a status of honour and dignity.

Naveed Butt

The Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan                                    

27 Saffar 1429 AH             
5th Mar 2008   CE