Political Concepts

Pakistan Headlines – 14 Oct 2014

Hindu State Martyrs Pakistanis, Whilst Pakistan’s Regime Maintains Its Weak Stance

The Raheel- Nawaz regime on 6 October lodged a strong protest with the government of India through diplomatic channels and called upon India to restrain its forces from “constant violation of the ceasefire”. “This was the sixth violation, occurring on a daily basis since October 1… Indian Forces violated [the ceasefire] from Akhnur, Dawar, Gulmerg, Jammu, Dawar and lastly, from Charwah Sectors,” spokesperson for the Foreign Office Tasneem Aslam said in a statement. Aslam added that, “The firing started at midnight and continued till morning. The Indian violation in complete disregard of the sacred occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, caused shahadat of four innocent citizens and injuries to three others.”

Words of condemnation when decisive action is required is a slap in the face of the Muslims. It is the Raheel-Nawaz regime’s weak-kneed policies that have bolstered Indian aggression against us, whether in the recent border tensions or previous ones. Since the Clinton era, the regime’s master, America, has wanted to exploit Pakistan to win over India to its sphere of influence, with the promise of the permanent burial of the Kashmir issue, crushing any armed resistance against India, enhancing India’s presence in Afghanistan, strengthening India’s economy by gaining access to our huge market and the reduction of our military capabilities, including our nuclear weapons. Such a weak and compromising stance was clear in Nawaz Sharif’s speech to the UN General Assembly.

The Muslims of Pakistan are in dire need of a sincere and aware leadership, ruling by Islam, to turn tide in favour of the Muslims against the aggressors. India is in fact in a weak position. America and India’s hold in Afghanistan is purely dependent on Pakistan, its logistical support, its intelligence and its professionally competent armed forces. The Hindu state is a fragile rule, with a tendency to collapse. It is based on bigotry to the point that there are a myriad of secessionist groups, which seek the division of India. It is incapable of providing security and prosperity to non-Hindus or even Hindus of lower castes. The Hindu state is energy dependent on the huge gas and oil reserves with the Muslim Lands and upon Pakistan for access to these resources. As for the Muslims, Islam is a unifying force for the Muslims of South and Central Asia that are over half a billion in number, of which nearly 200 million are in the Hindu state itself. The combined forces of the Islamic Ummah is approaching six million, those of the Hindu state stand at one million. The call for Khilafah has permeated through Central and South Asia, so the platform for the reunification of the Muslim Lands is in place. In addition, there are many non-hostile non-Muslim states in the region which resent American and Indian aggression on their doorstep. They are also amenable to access to the huge resources of the Muslim Lands. Only the Khilafah will benefit of these ground realities to put an end to Hindu regional mischief.

Raheel-Nawaz Regime Works to Eliminate Desire for Jihad against Kuffar Occupiers from the Tribal Regions

The Dawn newspaper reported on 9 October that the “Chief of the Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif has announced a “Fata youth package” under which 14,000 youths from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas will be inducted into the army over five years. Unveiling the package, Gen Raheel said Fata youths would be brought to the mainstream to utilise their potential. Of the 14,000 youths, he said, 1,000 would be inducted into the army in six months.”

What exactly is meant by bringing Fata youths into the “mainstream”? Why now and not before? The reality is that the regime is working hard to dampen present and future resistance to the American occupation on our doorstep. The tribal regions have been distinguished for centuries for their bravery against foreign occupiers, including in later times, the Imperial British and Soviet Russians. Such heroic defiance inspired the Muslims and defined the “mainstream,” inspiring their love for Jihad and rejection of Kuffar occupation. However, today, the regime claims that it has the sole right to direct the “mainstream.” Rather than nurturing the Islamic sentiments so as to end the dangerous American presence on our doorsteps, the regime first drew the armed forces into a war in the tribal areas, so as to protect the American forces from tribal regions. And now it seeks to bring the tribal people into submission before America as well.

The Islamic Ummah is the Ummah of Jihad and carrying Islam to all of humankind. It is characterized as the one that removed tyranny and oppression over the necks of the peoples. Once the Khilafah returns the entire society will be re-orientated in these lines as a primary duty, striking fear in the hearts of all those who occupy Muslim Lands. As Hizb ut-Tahrir has stipulated in its Introduction to the Constitution, Article 62: “Jihad is obligatory upon the Muslims and military training is compulsory. Every male Muslim who has reached the age of 15 is obligated to undertake military training in order to prepare him for Jihad. Recruitment is an obligation of sufficiency.” And it further states, Article 63: “The Army has two sections: the reserve section, which is all those Muslims who are capable of carrying arms, and the section of regular soldiers, who get salaries from the State budget in the same manner as the civil servants.”

Democrats See Foreign Hands Behind Crises, Yet Shake Them in Friendship

Former president Asif Ali Zardari sees foreign hand behind what is happening in the country on political, security and other fronts. “Whatever is happening in Pakistan has international links,” Mr Zardari, who is co-chairperson of the PPP, was quoted as telling the party cadre from Faisalabad division here on 9 October. “Today the pressure is being exerted on the Line of Control. We have two lines of control now – one along Afghanistan and the other along India,” he said and advised the national leadership to “be cautious and make every move carefully in the larger interest of the nation and the country”.

It is well known by the people that both America and India are active in stirring up trouble within Pakistan through their respective intelligence agencies. So the former President of Pakistan is not revealing anything new or surprising. However, none of the so-called politicians who have either ruled by Democracy or are waiting for their turn have raised the real reason that belligerent, hostile states are so easily able to create havoc in the country. The fact is that under Democracy despite the open hostility of India and America, whether occupation of Muslim Lands or spilling of Muslim Lands, both states are treated as “friendly nations,” with diplomatic privileges. Both these hostile nations use such privileges to further their hostile designs against Pakistan. Their embassies and consulates are dens of espionage and infiltration. In the case of America, it has intelligence and private military throughout the country. Its spies and assassins have been caught, yet freed.

Only the Khilafah will treat hostile nations on a war footing as Islam mandates, expelling all of their officials and closing all their facilities within the country. As Hizb ut-Tahrir has adopted in its Introduction to the Constitution, in Article 189, “States with whom we do not have treaties, and the actual imperialist states, such as Britain, America and France, and those states that have designs on the State, such as Russia, are legally considered to be belligerent states. All precautions must be taken towards them and it would be wrong to establish diplomatic relations with them.” And in the same article’s Clause 4 it has stated, “States that are actually belligerent states, such as Israel for example, a state of war must be taken as the basis for all dealings with them. They must be dealt with as if a real war existed between us – irrespective of whether an armistice exists between us or not – and all their subjects are prevented from entering the State.”

As for the Musharraf-era argument that the Khilafah would be isolated from the entire world, if it were to shut the doors to these two states, it is a lie. There are many non-hostile non-Muslim states in the region who resent American and Indian aggression on their doorstep. Not to mention Latin America, Africa and South East Asia who hate American arrogance and exploitation. They are also amenable to access to the huge resources of the Muslim Lands and friendly relations with the Khilafah. As for the current Muslim countries, who are enraged at the unanswered hostility of such states, Islam is a unifying force for the Muslims. The combined forces of the Islamic Ummah is approaching six million, dwarfing the armed forces of both India and America.

America’s Larger Strategy for India and Pakistan is Submission of the Muslim before the Hindu

Following increased Indian border aggression, the political and military leadership met in the National Security Committee (NSC). The Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told reporters, “Indian forces have opened another front, at a time when the Pakistani government and security forces are focusing on a military operation against terrorists in North Waziristan and the rehabilitation of those displaced.” The minister also alluded to something bigger when he said, “We have credible information that all this is happening as part of a larger strategy,” but refused to elaborate. The larger strategy is that America is supporting India’s rise as the dominant regional power, a position that it does not deserve owing to its Hindu bigotry that has not even spared its own minorities, whether Muslims or others. The ousting from power of the anti-American Congress by the BJP has granted America a golden opportunity for it to gain India to its side in its struggle against Muslims and China. As for the traitors within Pakistan’s political and military leadership they are ensuring that Pakistan does not stand in the way of India’s rise. So whilst India is spilling Muslim blood, the leadership is assuring India that it will not face any armed retaliation whatsoever, even though that is the only language that it has ever understood. A statement from the PM’s Office stated on 10 October, “War is not an option. It is the shared responsibility of the leadership of both countries to immediately defuse the situation.” Burying war and crying for peace, talks, dialogue and normalization, the regime has opened many doors for India.

On the economic front, the regime invites India to share in the immense resources of the Ummah, whilst neglecting the Ummah’s potential as an economic power. Through establishing trade pacts and energy deals, the Hindu will be provided a much needed stake in the wealth of the Muslims, such as the immense energy resources of Central Asia and the Middle East. Moreover, the hidden agenda is that industries such as information technology, aircraft manufacture and even space travel are for the Hindu to establish, whereas light and service industries such as tourism, rug weaving and sports equipment manufacture are for the Muslim. So, instead of economic growth and prosperity for the Muslim, the Hindu will fuel his industry from the resources of the Ummah and dominate her markets.

On the military front, under the guise of “intelligence sharing” and “border security co-operation” and by calling the Muslims to denounce the Islamic duty of jihad as “cross-border terrorism”, the regime seeks to reduce the status of Pakistan’s soldiers to that of bodyguards for Indian troops in Kashmir- Hindu troops that are so cowardly that they cower even before a handful of meagerly armed mujahideen. And the regime is prepared to do this even though Islam has raised the status of the army to that of a shield for the Muslims and a firm hand against the Kaffir oppressor.

And on the political front, the regime draws Pakistan into regional conferences that are dominated by India, whilst India herself aspires for a permanent membership of the UN Security Council, the cauldron of the Ummah’s miseries. All these measures allow the Hindu State to interfere strongly in the political affairs of the Ummah, even though Muslims have only known harm whenever the Hindu has had any degree of authority over them. The Hindu was the right hand of the oppressive colonialist during the time of the British Raj, organised the massacre of Muslims during 1947, oppressed the Muslims of Kashmir from then until now and ensured the carving of Pakistan in two in 1971. Allah سبحانه وتعالى said,

لَتَجِدَنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَدَاوَةً لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا الْيَهُودَ وَالَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا

“You will surely find that of all the people, the most hostile to the believers are the Jews and the mushrikeen.”

(Surah al-Maidah 5:82)

The West Exploits Malala Tragedy to Provide Cover for its Brutal War on Muslims

Regarding Malala Yousafzai becoming the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 October 2014, Malala was shot at and she should not have gone through what she went through. However, her global “stardom” is not about her standing up for the right of education for women. Her global prominence is because her tragedy was picked up by the West and used to sell Western political narrative on the War on Terror. The West and especially America and Britain want to present their occupation of Muslim lands and their plundering of resources of these lands as morally justifiable. So the West finds excuses to interfere in the affairs of the Muslim World, the latest of which is the War on Terror and the resultant occupation of Afghanistan. The tribal Muslim phenomenon was and remains to be an issue linked with the occupation of Afghanistan. However the West does not want to present the tribals of Afghanistan as freedom fighters as it did when its competitor, Soviet Russia, was the occupier, rather today when Western neo-crusaders are the occupiers, the West must malign them as terrorists and carriers of a “medieval dark ideology”. So if the tribal Muslims are the “dark forces”, the Western troops are the “Messiahs”. However if tribal Muslims are fighting to end the Western occupation of Afghanistan, then the West is exposed as an occupier. In this war of narratives, the Malala tragedy was used to help the Western narrative.

And yes of course how could the tragedy have been exploited by the West if Pakistan’s military and civilian rulers had not peddled out the same narrative which we hear from the West, given that our rulers are cheap Western agents. Moreover, the denial of education to women is not related to the religious beliefs of Muslims. If it were to happen it is due to corrupt tribal practice, rather than the enlightening Deen of Islam. In fact almost all major Islamist movements have focused on culturing and educating people, regardless of gender, with Islamic thoughts. Malala was a child when she was attacked, yet the West has exploited her tragedy to strengthen its hand in the battle between West and the Muslim World. This is not about education. It is about colonialism.