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Pakistan: O Muslims! Eject the American political and military presence from the region

On the morning of 30 March 2009, a dozen attackers, heavily armed with sophisticated weaponry, attacked the Manawa Police Training School, leaving scores dead and hundreds injured. After this attack, the government started to claim that the attackers are linked with the Tribal Areas, in which America wants to continue her war. So, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, claimed, “This attack was planned in South Waziristan.”

Moreover, the government officials recovered an Afghan passport from a terrorist, as if he would wander around carrying such an incriminating document with him on such an occasion. Significantly, this incident happened immediately after the unveiling of Barack Obama’s “new” strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, in which Obama asserted that America must fight not only in Afghanistan, but also in Pakistan, for its so called “war on terror.”

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

O Muslims! Eject the American political and military presence, and its intelligence agencies, from the region, which are the real cause for the chaos and attacks

On the morning of 30 March 2009, a dozen attackers, heavily armed with sophisticated weaponry, attacked the Manawa Police Training School, leaving scores dead and hundreds injured. After this attack, the government started to claim that the attackers are linked with the Tribal Areas, in which America wants to continue her war. So, Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, claimed, “This attack was planned in South Waziristan.”

Moreover, the government officials recovered an Afghan passport from a terrorist, as if he would wander around carrying such an incriminating document with him on such an occasion. Significantly, this incident happened immediately after the unveiling of Barack Obama’s “new” strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, in which Obama asserted that America must fight not only in Afghanistan, but also in Pakistan, for its so called “war on terror.”

It also came before an impending visit by US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Michael Mullen, and the US Special Envoy Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, in which they will dictate Obama’s new strategy to Pakistan’s military and political leadership. Indeed, such attacks are now a routine before the visit of American military and political officials. Such incidents are beneficial for the American establishment to mount pressure on the Pakistani establishment to stand in the pursuit of America’s war on terror, and serve to highlight Obama’s claim that fighting this war is not just vital for America, but for everyone. This is in addition to America pressurizing the Pakistani army to “do more” by threatening to send her own troops into Pakistan, even though the cowardice of the Americans is so great that they are unable to face small groups of poorly armed mujahideen.

The chaos created by these relentless attacks and blasts, which have raged throughout Pakistan for several years, can be readily sensed by all of Pakistan’s citizens. But the fact which is hidden from the eyes of all but a few is that these attacks and blasts are also part of America’s strategy regarding this region. America is behind these attacks and blasts. Indeed, there were never attacks and blasts of this scale and frequency, before the American presence in this region. There was a sudden and immediate surge after America started her war on Muslims in this region.

After eradicating the Taleban government in Afghanistan, America began to indicate that she will extend her theatre of war into Pakistan. Hence, high ranking American officials started to implicate the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. So, her war reached the Tribal Areas and has now been extended to the urban centers of Pakistan. Like faithful servants to their master, Pakistan’s rulers started to make statements and implement resolutions exactly according to US policy. Rulers who initially claimed they were saving Pakistan by supporting the invasion of Afghanistan, then began to declare the presence of terrorists in Pakistan and now this is used to justify the American drone attacks on Pakistani soil.

Moreover, the Americans are acutely aware of the strength and capability of Pakistan, and it is in her interest to maintain her control of Pakistan through her agents, otherwise she is fearful of the consequences. David Kilcullen, who advises CENTCOM commander Gen. David H Petraeus on America’s war, said in an interview with Washington Post in March 2009, “Pakistan has 173 million people, 100 nuclear weapons, an army bigger than the US Army … We’re now reaching the point where within one to six months we could see the collapse of the Pakistani state … an extremist takeover — that would dwarf everything we’ve seen in the war on terror today.” Indeed, were the Khilafah to be established, it would be an immediate and severe threat to American interests.

Successive agent rulers in Pakistan have played out their role. Agent rulers not only provided logistic support, airspace and air bases of Pakistan to practically ensure America’s invasion of Afghanistan, they also gave free reign to American intelligence agencies in the region. That is why America’s FBI and CIA have established offices and are operating extensively until today. These American agencies are well known throughout the world for their malicious role in creating chaos. Their routine work includes assassinations, blasts, grooming agents, destabilizing the governments and spreading fear and insecurity. Modern world history is littered with their heinous crimes. As well as working independently, these agencies endeavor to use local agencies that established strong ties with military organizations, at the time of the Jihad against the previous occupation of Afghanistan, by Soviet Russia.

Assisted by the Pakistani rulers, America has initiated a campaign of blasts and attacks, accompanied by media propaganda to address the public opinion against the occupying forces in Afghanistan, in an attempt to deceive the people into accepting the current ruler’s open collaboration with America. So, after every such incident, such as the attack on the Lahore Police academy, Pakistan’s President, Prime Minister and other high level officials address the media to try and convince the people that terrorism and extremism are the biggest domestic threats and hence America’s war is not America’s war, but “our” war.

By scrutinizing the government’s propaganda campaign carefully, one can understand that this campaign is active at many levels to produce an effect on each and every citizen of Pakistan, either he is a secular or Islamist, influential or ordinary man. So, the government is continuously claiming that there must be military operations in the Tribal Areas, otherwise the whole country will face “Talebanization.”

The target of this government claim is the secular people, in order to garner their support for the operations in the Tribal Areas, as a service for America. From time to time, the government also claims that terrorism and extremism are the real causes of lack of investment and financial crisis, so the resolution of these problems demands participation in America’s war in the Tribal Area. Such government propaganda is aimed at deceiving traders and business men.

As for the army and the patriotic people, in a bid to persuade them to fight this war for America and to sacrifice our own soldiers in its cause, the government from time to time circulates reports that there are Indian RAW intelligence agents that have infiltrated in the region, so the war is not against fellow Muslims, but against the RAW enemy. However, if the agent rulers are sincere in their claims, then why do they support the American occupation in the region, because it is America herself who opened the doors for India and her intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, bordering the Tribal Areas?

Moreover, Obama is ready to grant even more opportunities to India, as he mentioned in his speech of 27 March, in which he said India would now be a part of a “contact group” to assist America in solving the “problem” in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Also, if the government is really serious about India’s infiltration, enmity and intent to destabilize Pakistan, then why is the government always in a hurry to develop bilateral, friendly ties with the state of Hindus?

Also, to gain the support of those who covet Islam, the government uses the term “Taleban” and states that the “Taleban” are presenting a distorted version of Islam to the world, thereby turning the world against Pakistan, the “Fortress of Islam.” The government further accuses the Taleban of the bomb blasts and killing of innocent people, so as to justify the stance that she is left with no other option but to undertake military operations against them. And in the aftermath of these blasts and attacks which produce chaos and insecurity in cities of Pakistan, the government tries to convince the common man that the military operations are a must for peace.

Finally, by specifically targeting the police and security institutions, the government seeks to ensure that these institutions follow all the orders issued for the sake of America, including killing fellow Muslims or handing them over to the American kuffar.

Thus the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan is similar to the one in Iraq, where America employed identical tactics. Before America invaded Iraq, there were no attacks on Imambargahs or mosques, yet, immediately after the invasion, conflicts were instigated between Muslims and attacks on security institutions began with unabated ferocity. The occupying forces were the direct beneficiaries of the chaos and became more deeply entrenched there. And now the Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan are seeing a similar surge in instability, after America’s invasion of this region.

And America is not only fighting this war using our military, but also using our media, through her agents. The Pakistani government has ensured that the media does not provide coverage to the deaths of Muslim men, women and children, in the wake of military operations and drone attacks in the Tribal Areas and NWFP. This is so that the Ummah remains unaware of the heavy loss to life and property in the wake of the American dictated military operations and drone attacks, preventing a rise in public sympathy for the Muslims of the Tribal Areas and NWFP.

This is the same policy that Musharraf adopted prior to the brutal Lal Masjid Operation, where he announced that he is ready to end the crisis if the media does not broadcast images of the corpses, when he asked journalists on 29 June 2007, “Can you guarantee that blood of any dead or injured will not be screened on television channels during the operation?” And this policy remains in place today under the current agent rulers, because America is concerned lest the Muslims of Pakistan are aroused against America’s war in the Tribal Areas, as they were inflamed over the military operations of the state of Jews against the Muslims of Gaza.

As for the rulers of Pakistan, they are fully collaborating with the Americans, to such an extent, that these rulers are even asking the Americans to provide them with drone planes, so that they can kill their own Muslim citizens with their own hands. As for the so-called opposition to the government, Nawaz Shareef and others, rather than holding the rulers accountable for their flagrant violation of Islam and open collaboration with the kuffar enemy, they eagerly join the cue to embrace the American officials, to sit with them and take instruction from them, shaking their hands even though these hands are stained with the blood of Muslims. Indeed, they make clear to the Ummah that were they to come to power, they would seek to exceed their predecessors in treachery against the Muslims and disobedience to Allah سبحانه وتعالى.

O Muslims of Pakistan!

You know that Islam has forbidden the Muslims from killing other Muslims with bombs and attacks, rather Islam directs Jihad against the occupying Kuffar. Moreover, it is crucial for you to know that these attacks and chaos will remain until we eject America’s political and military presence, and its intelligence agencies, from the region. Indeed, Allah سبحانه وتعالى has prohibited the Muslims acceptance of the kuffar’s influence and dominion over them,

وَلَنْ يَجْعَلَ اللَّهُ لِلْكَافِرِينَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِنِينَ سَبِيلاً

“Allah does not permit the kuffar any authority over the believers” [Surah An-Nisa’a, Ayah:141]

So, will you not join Hizb ut-Tahrir in its movement to re-establish the Khilafah, which is the practical Islamic method to end all of America’s presence in the region, along with the treacherous agent rulers she has installed over you?

O Pakistan army!

Uproot these rulers who provide red-carpet receptions for your enemies, who are ready to sell the Muslims of Pakistan for mere dollars and who use you as fuel for America’s war. And give Nussrah to Hizb ut-Tahrir for the re-establishment of the Khilafah, through which Allah سبحانه وتعالى will raise Islam high and strengthen the Muslims. Allah سبحانه وتعالى says,

يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ تَنصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ

“O you who believe! If you help Allah’s deen, Allah will help you and will strengthen your foothold.” [Surah Muhammad, 47:7]

 

Hizb ut-Tahrir
Wilayah Pakistan

21 Rabi ul-Aakhar 1430 / 1 April 2009