Battered and bruised Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani struggled to gain the confidence of the nation, in the aftermath of America’s raid on Abbottabad. Even the loyal army officers and the dependable cadres, once the spine of Kayani’s support base, openly challenged his version of events. In particular, many officers were not only perplexed, but less than convinced by the inability of the armed forces to detect and respond to the penetration of Pakistani airspace by hostile enemy helicopters.
The episode also emboldened Pakistan’s arch enemy and rival India, to the extent that her military chiefs publicly boasted about India’s capacity to conduct a similar operation: Army Chief Gen VK Singh said, “I would like to say only this that if such a chance comes, then all the three arms (of the military) are competent to do this…” and India’s Air Chief Marshal P V Naik blurted, “India can do it.” This deep seated enmity towards Pakistan expressed by Singh and Naik is not limited to the Indian armed forces. Rather, the hostility is rampant amongst Indian politicians, intellectuals, columnists etc. Yet, despite this wellspring of animosity, Kayani and his blundering puppet government continue to extend olive branches of peace to New Delhi.
Nevertheless, the disgraced Kayani and his entourage of misfits that includes the liberal elite, the paid media pundits and the nationalistic officers, chose to overlook Indian animosity and American antagonism towards Pakistan and instead decided to join forces to construct a patriotic narrative to compensate for Kayani’s monumental failures. The deceptive narrative advocated by the media mercenaries, the pseudo intelligentsia and the cranky nationalists does not focus on declaring India and America the enemy of Pakistan but instead purports that the army is the only institution that can prevent Pakistan’s collapse.
Upon a cursory examination of the rationale that underpins this narrative—even by an ordinary person with a modicum of common sense – demonstrates that it is a preposterous claim, peppered with inconsistencies and contradictions. For starters, how can Kayani defend Pakistan’s lopsided relationship with America? America is an avowed enemy of Pakistan and in both in word and deed continues to openly destabilize Pakistan in the tribal areas, whilst simultaneously seeks to strengthen its bilateral relations with India through nuclear deals and high-tech military contracts. How can Kayani defend the vicious indiscriminate drone strikes that have killed and maimed thousands of innocent Pakistani civilians. Perhaps the answer lies in Kayani’s appetite for spilling further Muslim blood, by demanding that the number and intensity of the drone strikes should increase as disclosed recently by Wikileaks. Indeed, a long list of Kayani’s crimes against Pakistan can be compiled that would be enough to hang him for treason in any court of law, except Pakistan.
What about Kayani’s predecessors? Field Marshall Ayub Khan presided over the humiliating Indus Treaty, which surrendered control of Pakistan’s waterways and rivers to India. General Yahya Khan lost East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), only for India to consolidate her grip over the Muslims of Bangladesh. General Zia ul Haq lost Sachin to India. General Pervez Musharraf ceded Kargil to aid Vajpayee’s election victory, lost Afghanistan, abandoned the Kashmiri people, compromised Pakistan’s nuclear assets and laid the foundations for unprecedented American hostility and hegemony in the region. Furthermore, the appalling state of Pakistan’s political landscape over the past five decades is a direct result of the collective efforts of its military leadership. Under its auspices, politicians are bought and sold – most of them are jesters and puppets of the army; elections are routinely rigged courtesy of the ISI and the majority of political decisions usually bear the hallmarks of the military high command. Is there any aspect of political life the military does not influence or control? The same can be said about the economy. Apart from the vast business interests that have mushroomed under successive military chiefs, the military continues to consume a significant share of the fiscal budget year on year, as opposed to other institutions.
In return for complete domination of Pakistan’s politics and economy has the military leadership successfully defended Pakistan’s national interests? The answer is simply No! The facts listed above speak for themselves. So the deceitful mantra of ‘Pakistani army is a savior of Pakistan’ is a barefaced lie. Those who spearhead such a campaign are either smitten by their western master’s empty promises or are misguided transgressors, intellectually bankrupt and unable to think for themselves.
This is the true nature of the military leadership of Pakistan. A leadership that for decades felt no shame and expressed no remorse in squandering the resources of the Pakistani nation in the pursuit of serving and protecting the interests of its Kafir colonialist masters. However, Kayani’s treachery has even put his predecessors’ accomplishments to shame. Kayani, has actively placed the authority of the armed forces in the hands of his American masters. They decide where and when the Pakistani army should be deployed, and whom they should fight. The brutal slaughter of civilians in Swat and the tribal areas, and the subsequent displacement of millions of Pakistanis is ample proof of Kayani’s surrender of authority to his American masters. Kayani has clearly transgressed the limits prescribed by Allah سبحانه وتعالى in granting the authority of the armed forces to the disbelieving colonialists.
Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in the Quran:
وَلَنْ يَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ لِلْكَافِرِينَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ سَبِيلًا
“And never will Allah allow the disbelievers to have a way over the believers.” [An-Nisaa’, 4:141]
People of Pakistan must increase their efforts to oppose at every juncture the evil alliance between Pakistan and America that Musharraf brokered in 2001 to fight Islam, but Kayani nurtured it, raised it to extraordinary levels of American subjugation that saw the release of the killer Raymond Davis, whilst the innocent Aafia Sidiqqui languished in prison. Even after the humiliation of the Abbotabad raid, the disgraceful Kayani continues to protect this evil alliance and claims that Pakistan’s strategic assets are safe. His obedience to his American masters and his loyalty to the evil alliance is so firm that the cut in US aid to Pakistan has not diminished his zeal or enthusiasm. Allah سبحانه وتعالى forbids Muslims from entering, supporting and remaining quite about alliances with disbelieving colonialist powers that seek destroy Islam and Muslims:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا الْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَارَىٰ أَوْلِيَاءَ ۘ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَاءُ بَعْضٍ ۚ وَمَنْ يَتَوَلَّهُمْ مِنْكُمْ فَإِنَّهُ مِنْهُمْ
“O you who believe! Take not the Jews and Christians as awliyaa’ they are awliyaa’ only to each other. And he among you that turns to them is of them.” [al-Maai’dah, 5:51]
بَشِّرِ الْمُنَافِقِينَ بِأَنَّ لَهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا
الَّذِينَ يَتَّخِذُونَ الْكَافِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِنْ دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۚ أَيَبْتَغُونَ عِنْدَهُمُ الْعِزَّةَ فَإِنَّ الْعِزَّةَ لِلَّهِ جَمِيعًا
“Give to the hypocrites the news that for them there is a painful torment. Those who take disbelievers for awliyaa’ instead of believers, do they seek i’zzah (honour, power) with them? Then verily, all the i’zzah belongs to Allah.” [An-Nisaa’, 4:138-139]
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا الْكَافِرِينَ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِنْ دُونِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۚ أَتُرِيدُونَ أَنْ تَجْعَلُوا لِلَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ سُلْطَانًا مُبِينًا
“O you who believe! Take not for awliyaa’ disbelievers instead of believers. Do you wish to offer Allah a manifest proof against yourselves?” [An-Nisaa’, 4:144]
There are some immediate steps that can be initiated to pressurize the military leadership to cut its alliance with America.
1. Do not extend any forms of cooperation to the leadership of the armed forces in its sin of supporting America’s war against Pakistan. Halt all supplies and logistics, until the army leadership relents and severs its ties with America.
2. Send messages of defiance to all the local Corp commanders that this evil alliance with America will not be tolerated. Furthermore, engage in all forms of forms of non-violent civil disobedience at all the army headquarters in the four provinces demanding an end to Pakistan’s relationship with America.
3. Actively convince your sons and daughters who work for the armed forces not to participate in any activity that supports America’s hegemony over Pakistan.
As for the sincere officers of the Pakistani army, we know that you are not like Kayani and his small courtier of mischief advisors. You are sincere to Islam and yearn to defend Pakistan from the enemies America and India. However, it is not enough for you to be angry in silence and continue to serve Kayani in obedience. There is no obedience to the one who seeks to plunder and destroy Pakistan, and sacrifices its brave soldiers for the interests of the Kuffar.
Nawaas bin Sama’aan reported that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said, “There is no obedience to the creation in disobedience to the Creator.” (BAGHAWI in ‘Sharhus Sunnah’ [10/44] AHMAD, AL HAAKIM)
A’li reported that the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said, “There is no obedience in disobedience to Allah. Obedience is in Ma’roof.” (MUSLIM kitaabul Imaarah [no.4536], BUKHAARI [Eng vers. Vol. 9 no.259])
Below are a couple of actions you can immediately take to show your obedience to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and your disobedience to Kayani.
1. You most actively oppose your superior officers who support Kayani and are committed to America’s subjugation of Pakistan.
2. You must work tirelessly, to stop Kayani from using the Pakistani armed forces to execute America’s crusade in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This means you must refuse to execute orders, operate military equipment, fly planes etc. that involve the killing of Muslims or aiding American forces to gain domination over Pakistan.
In the long-term, there is only one solution to domination of America over your affairs and the control of your armed forces. You must join hands with your brothers in the army to re-establish the Khilafah Rashida which will bring an end to the American hegemony, and return dignity to the people of Pakistan.
Abu Hashem Panjabi
25-8-2011