Analysis, Side Feature, South Asia

Pakistan Headlines – 14 April 2017

Headlines:

  • Why Does the Saudi-Led Alliance not Mobilize Against Bashar the Terrorist?
  • Bajwa-Nawaz Regime’s Contradictory Stance over Indian-US Nexus
  • In Pakistan, Muslims Sacrifice for Islam, not Democracy
  • Stone-Hearted Bajwa-Nawaz Regime Aiding Chinese Atheist Drive


Bashar the Terrorist Suffocates Babies to Death, Yet the Saudi-Led Alliance Against Terrorism Remains Idle

On 4 April 2017, the brutal tyrant of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, used lethal chemical weapons to suffocate to death dozens of Muslims of Khan Sheikhoun, including innocent children and women. This open act of terrorism has even sent shivers in the Western world, a world which, under the leadership of US and UK, encourages the slaughter of Muslims at the hands of the savages of Bashar and his helpers from Russia and the party of Iran. If there was ever a need for General Raheel to mobilize the 39-member Saudi-led alliance against “terrorism”, it is now. After all, in 2015, Saudi Arabia ranked third amongst all developing nations weapons purchasers, according to the 19 December 2016 report ‘Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations 2008-2015’ released by Congressional Research Service (CRS), whilst first and second were Qatar and Egypt. So, what greater purpose is there for such a well armed alliance than ending the rule of the tyrant Bashar?!

However, liberators of Muslims are heroes of this Ummah and not people who have sold their Aakhira for this Dunya and its riches. The King of Saudi Arabia has usurped the wealth of the Ummah, to invest it in the lands of their enemies, or spend of it to shed Muslim blood in Yemen and other places. As for General Raheel, through consolidating the US occupation of Afghanistan through action and emboldening India in Occupied Kashmir through inaction, he has been richly rewarded and praised as a king would be, receiving ninety acres of land and a US Legion of Merit medal amongst other “treasures.” These “kings” of the earth will never bring victory for the Ummah for they have blinded themselves regarding the reality of the Day of Judgment. Bukhari narrated from Abu Huraira: I heard Allah’s Messenger ﷺ saying, «يَقْبِضُ اللَّهُ الأَرْضَ، وَيَطْوِي السَّمَوَاتِ بِيَمِينِهِ، ثُمَّ يَقُولُ أَنَا الْمَلِكُ، أَيْنَ مُلُوكُ الأَرْضِ؟»Allah will hold the whole earth, and roll all the heavens up in His Right Hand, and then He will say, ‘I am the King; where are the kings of the earth?” Indeed, such “kings” along with others who abandoned this Ummah will seek to hide that day, but there will be nothing that will save from the wrath of the Lord of the Universe.

Let this be a reminder to the sincere officers in Pakistan’s armed forces. They must follow the likes of Salahuddin and Khalid bin Walid (ra), who did not have much worldly wealth, but fought with valor and died with dignity. Thus, everyone, including the West, remembers these men as honorable warriors. But who will remember Musharraf, Kayani and Raheel and those who follow their way of “professional” treachery and cowardice?

 

Bajwa-Nawaz Regime’s Contradictory Stance over Indian-US Nexus

During a news conference in New York on 3 April 2017, Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, talked about the possibility of the US mediating between India and Pakistan. “It’s absolutely right that this administration is concerned about the relationship between India and Pakistan and very much wants to see how we de-escalate any sort of conflict going forward,” she said, “I would expect that the [Trump] administration is going to be in talks and try and find its place to be a part of that because it’s concerned about the situation.”

The reactions were as expected, with Pakistan willing to cooperate and India remaining belligerent. The defeatist, colonialist slave mentality of the Bajwa-Nawaz regime exposes its negligence of our affairs. Does the regime actually expect the US to side with Pakistan on the issue, knowing that the US has aligned with India to counter China? Are the regime’s pillars actually in their senses when they make statements? On 27 March 2017, the Tribune reported that at the national maritime conference in Islamabad,  Lt Gen (retd) Nasser Khan Janjua, National Security Adviser stated that, “India and the US have carved out space to preposition themselves on this ocean. India is being propped up as a counter-weight to China through geo-political, economic and military moves.” Clearly the Bajwa-Nawaz regime has a contradictory stance over the US-Indian nexus. On the one hand the regime laments that the US and India are encircling our maritime space, yet, on the other hand the regime will work with the US to entice a belligerent India for a settlement over Kashmir, which will strengthen India against Pakistan.

Through their blind subservience to the United States, the traitors in Pakistan’s leadership are herding us towards Akhand Bharat (Greater India) and the wholesale betrayal of Occupied Kashmir. And they work to surrender us to the Western crusaders and hateful Hindu Mushrikeen, even though Allah (swt) warned,

مَا يَوَدُّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَلاَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ أَنْ يُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ وَاللَّهُ يَخْتَصُّ بِرَحْمَتِهِ مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَاللَّهُ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ

Neither those who followed earlier revelation who deny the truth, nor the Mushrikeen like to see good bestowed upon you from your Sustainer; but Allah bestows grace upon whom He chooses- for Allah is limitless in His great bounty.”

(Surah al-Baqara 2:105)

 

In Pakistan, Muslims Sacrifice for Islam, not Democracy

Expressing his views on the Constitution Day 10 April 2017, Pakistan’s Prime Minister said: “This is also a day to pay homage to all those Pakistanis who sacrificed for democracy and the rule of law.” The democratic political parties in Pakistan have long campaigned that due to military rulers, the masses have been deprived of the fruits of democracy. The prime minister’s comments come at a time when, for a second consecutive time, a democratic regime is about to complete its full tenure, without being ousted by a military rule.

Though the regime and its masters in Washington continually sing the praises of Democracy, amongst the Muslims of Pakistan, there is established rejection of Democracy. The Muslims have only ever sacrificed for Islam and will only ever sacrifice of Islam. Their rejection of democracy comes despite years of bombardment of pro-Democracy propaganda through education main-stream media, political parties and state machinery. The rulers wish that the Muslims would embrace Democracy and abandon their demand for ruling by Islam. However, the over-whelming majority of Muslims in Pakistan have strong Islamic sentiments, fuelling an ever increasing demand for Islam’s implementation. Several reports and surveys published have revealed these sentiments over the years. One such latest survey by the Pew research center was published in April 2016, revealing that 94% of Pakistan’s public demands laws derived from the Quran, whilst an over-whelming majority in other Muslim countries had similar views. (http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/04/27/the-divide-over-islam-and-national-laws-in-the-muslim-world/).

Since independence, Pakistan has been in a state of mayhem due to the ruling seesaw between dictatorship by military rulers and Democracy by civilian rulers. However both democracy and dictatorship have ensured that rulers rule by the dictates of foreign colonialist countries, primarily the US. So Washington controls our affairs through its State Department, CENTCOM, Department of Defence and also its influence within the World Bank and IMF. What makes this possible is that in both Democracy and dictatorship the fundamental principle is that legislation or law-making is subject to human whims and desires. Any system founded on such principles gives ruler the right to define what is right or wrong for individuals or society. It is this right of legislation which the rulers have used in usurping the public wealth, following the dictates of foreign powers, killing their own people and implementing secular or liberal laws. In principle, military rule is no different to civilian rule. In dictatorship, legislation is determined by “an individual,” whereas in Democracy, legislation is determined by a “group of individuals.” However the legislation is subject to human whims and desires. Therefore the root of Pakistan’s problem lies both in Democracy and Dictatorship, where rights and wrongs are all subject to the whims and desires of human-beings so what is impossible today can be made possible tomorrow and vice versa. As Islam, the right of legislation or law-making belongs to none but Allah alone. Allah swt says: إِنِ ٱلْحُكْمُ إِلاَّ لِلَّهِ “The Command rests with none but Allah” (Surah al-Anaa, 6:57). In Islam, the Khalifah is responsible for implementing Islamic laws that are determined by the Quran and the Sunnah, rather than moulding laws according to whims and desires. It is mandatory that every single law that is implemented must be established on the basis of Islam, whether it is definite in ruling (Hukm Qat’i) or indefinite in ruling (Hukm Dhannee), wherein difference of opinion occurs. Any violation will be taken to the Court of Unjust Acts for redress. It is only with the establishment of Khilafah upon the Method of the Prophethood that the doors of legislation will be closed for the rulers, preventing them from ruling by other than all that Allah (swt) revealed.

 

Stone-Hearted Bajwa-Nawaz Regime Aiding Chinese Atheist Drive

As reported in Dawn dated 7 April 2017, President Mamnoon Hussain, said that under operations Zarb-i-Azb and Raddul Fasaad, Pakistan was taking indiscriminate action against terrorist outfits, including East Turkes­tan Islamic Movement, and producing positive results….“Pakistan supports ‘One China Policy’ and backs China’s stance on Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang and South China Sea.” East Turkestan, which is called Xinjiang by China after it forcibly occupied it in 1949, is home to around 10 million Muslims. More than one million Uyghur Muslims died in the clashes that took place in the year 1949, when the Chinese Communist regime led by Mao Zedong established occupation and abolished the independence of the territory, annexing it to the Republic of China. The region was emptied of its population of Muslims, which was distributed to the inner provinces in China. In its hatred towards Islam and forceful implementation of communism, the mosques were martyred and reduced to 500, compared to the 25,000 in 1949. China in its atheist drive has been forcing Muslims in different parts of the province to abandon fasting in the month of Ramadhan, forcing young men to shave their beards and forbidding women not to cover themselves as per Shariah. In its atheist drive, China has crossed all limits when it recently announced a law whereby several fundamental Islamic rituals will be officially banned, not in some parts of the province but for all of East Turkestan, effective from 1 April 2017. As reported in Aljazeera dated 1 April 2017, a new legislation took effect 1 April 2017 which lists a wide range of restrictions, including rejecting or refusing “radio, television or other public facilities and services,” marrying using religious rather than civil, legal procedures and “using the name of Halal to meddle in secular life of others”. The rules also ban not allowing children to attend government schools, not abiding by family planning policies, wearing robes that cover the whole body and face and “abnormal growing of beards and naming of children to exaggerate religious fervor”, according to the text of the rules published on a government website.

It is in the context of the introduction of these brutal rules that the rulers of Pakistan had a meeting with Chinese officials. The treacherous rulers of Pakistan gave these statements to aid and legitimize the Chinese state and its occupation of East Turkestan. If the rulers had the slightest degree of sincerity, they would have adopted a war stance with China, as the matter of banning Islamic rituals required no deep understanding. However, these rulers of Pakistan did not even raise their voices for the suffering Muslims of East Turkestan and instead supported the Chinese regime in its atheist drive. By supporting the One China policy, the Bajwa-Nawaz regime has buried entire notion of the liberation of East Turkestan. These stone-hearted rulers are like moving corpses, having no senses to realize the pain of suffering Muslims.

Anyone who has a heart, sight and insight can comprehend that the Muslims have lost their guardian who looks after their affairs. They have lost the Imam who protects them and behind whom they fight, as RasulAllah said, إِنَّمَا الْإِمَامُ جُنَّةٌ يُقَاتَلُ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ وَيُتَّقَى بِهِ»» “The Imam is a shield, behind him you fight and by him you are protected.” (Muslim) What makes the Muslims across the globe so defenseless against these Kufr suppressive regimes is that they have no state which defends them. The Khaleefah is a shield behind which the Muslims will be protected and defended. It is upon the establishment of Khilafah, that calls from East Turkestan will be answered and the Muslim armies will be mobilized for liberating the Muslim Lands of East Turkestan from the clutches of China.