Analysis, South Asia

Pakistan Headlines – 18 July 2015

Regime’s National Inaction Plan Against US Raymond Davis Network

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on 9 July that international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) carrying out activities harmful for the country’s security and national interest would not be allowed to function even in the face of pressure by other states and multinational bodies. The regime is acting against NGOs on the basis that they are a means of foreign interference in the affairs of Pakistan but has not lifted a finger against the huge and deadly US presence in Pakistan!

The regime allows the existence of US intelligence and private military on our soil, who have bases throughout Pakistan, including the sensitive military areas. These US assets infiltrate loose tribal networks and instigate attacks against our armed forces and civilian population, as a result of which casualties have now exceeded 150,000 according to the regime itself. Is this not considered harmful for the country’s security and national interest? Does this not confirm that the National Action Plan is a National Inaction Plan?

The regime rapidly frees the US assets when they are caught red handed and carrying weapons, as occurred in the infamous Raymond Davis and Joel Cox Eugene cases. The regime also allows the existence of the fortified US embassy and consulates which are used as bases to launch American conspiracies within our territories. And traitors within the military and political leadership regularly meet Western officials, briefing them fully regarding our affairs and taking guidance from them.

The regime’s lip service and token measures against foreign interference will not change the public perception that it is in the pocket of the US. Only the Khilafah will take the necessary tangible steps to end colonialist interference in Muslim Lands by adopting a war stance with the belligerent hostile nations, which means severing all ties with them.

 

Arabic is the Official Language of the Coming Khilafah State

The federal government informed the Supreme Court on 10 July that an executive order had been issued to make it mandatory for the president, prime minister, federal ministers and other official representatives to deliver their speeches in Urdu while within the country or abroad. The secretary, information and broadcasting, during the hearing of a case pertaining to promotion and implementation of Urdu language informed an SC bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja that the prime minister had signed the executive order on July 6. According to short-term measures, federal government departments have been asked to translate their policies and rules in Urdu in three months. The forms relating to all the government and semi-government institutions will be in Urdu and at key public places like courts, police stations, hospitals, parks, educational institutions and banks the information signs will be in Urdu besides the English language.

The issue of language has concerned Pakistan since it was founded in 1947, during the partition of India, as the British occupying forces withdrew. Although Urdu is constitutionally the official language of Pakistan, English has a significant role in government, law and education. Proponents of Urdu point out that English puts the masses in difficulties, due to their greater familiarity with Urdu. This split inhibits learning and understanding, handicapping teachers and lawyers in particular. Proponents of English say that it is the language of the dominant global civilization and so the Muslims will be left behind if they do not embrace it more. Others point out that promotion of Urdu gives an unfair advantage to one ethnicity over others, which is the Urdu-speaking Muhajir who migrated from India. They ask what of Punjabi, Pushtoon, Sindhi, Saraiki or Balochi language to level the playing field?

The solution requires examining the origin of the status of languages from our Deen. In Islam, Arabic is the official language of the state, with local languages being used for the ease of governing the people. RasulAllah ﷺ insisted upon the use of the Arabic language, the language of the divine texts in Islam, in state communications with the Romans (Rum), even though Sohaib (ra) Ar-Rumi could have easily translated. Similarly, Salman al-Farsi (ra) was present, yet communications with Persia (Fars) were also in Arabic. Arabic’s close linkage with Islam and its texts, the Quran and Sunnah, meant that it was embraced by Muslims all over the world. This led to the natural Arabisation of the Muslim people, including a profound impact of Arabic on local languages, which can be seen today in African, South Asian and South Eastern Asian languages. Moreover, because the Khilafah was the dominant power in the world, the influence of the Islamic civilization meant that the Arabic language became the lingua franca for learning and became highly prized by Europeans, struggling within their Dark Ages.

 

According to the American Plan, Raheel-Nawaz Regime Betrays the Muslims of Pakistan and Kashmir

The latest meeting between Pakistani and Indian prime ministers provoked anger in the people of Pakistan, which the opposition sensed strongly. On 11 July Dr Shireen Mazari, Spokesperson for PTI Chief and Member of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, condemned the weak stance, declaring that, “… at a time when the Indian leadership is actively sabotaging the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and hurling all manner of accusations against Pakistan as well as seeking sanctions against it, PM Sharif went out of the way to invite Mr Modi to attend Saarc Aummit in Pakistan.” It was equally disturbing to “witness the Pakistani PM’s absolute silence on Kashmir and Indian involvement in Balochistan… (Also) not a word on Samjhauta Express was uttered by PM Sharif.”

The weak stance of the regime is the result of the American policy of forming regional bloc with India in a leading role. This bloc is to simultaneously contain China as well as stand as an obstacle to any movement within Muslims for the return of the Khilafah to Pakistan. American policy demands compromises from Pakistan to pave the way for India’s rise. Such compromises were seen in the time of the Musharraf-Aziz regime with a series of U-turns on Kashmir. The Kayani-Zardari regime persisted in the same treacherous mode, nudging forward on normalization with India. That the Raheel-Nawaz regime is committing treason is not surprising, as the head of the civilian arm, Nawaz Sharif, in his previous term prostrated before a BJP-led India and is doing so again now, whilst the current head of the military arm, Raheel Sharif, was the chief architect of the revisions to the Green Book of the Pakistan Army, through which he cunningly turned the military focus away from India as an enemy.

Democracy itself opens the doors to such treachery, as it allows traitors in the military and political leadership to ignore the Islamic rulings regarding Kaffir occupation of Muslim Lands and the obligation to ensure the dominance of Islam over all nations. The current regime will inevitably betray the Muslims, as well as any future regime that rules by Democracy. It is time now for a political leadership that rules by Islam, as a Khilafah state. Only such a state will mobilize all available political, economic and military resources to liberate Kashmir and pave the way for the return of India to Islamic rule, as it was for centuries.

 

Nussrah for Khilafah from the Armed Forces is the Only Way to End Corruption

On 15 July, the Supreme Court has directed the National Accountability Bureau to come up with an explanation about how much of the Rs256 billion it had recovered from political offenders over the past four years consisted of plea bargain and voluntary return. The directive was issued by a two-judge bench headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja during the hearing on Wednesday of a case relating to NAB’s state of affairs, mal-administration and poor performance. Earlier the bureau had submitted a list of 150 mega scandals of Rs600bn and its Director General (operations) Syed Khalid Iqbal informed the court that the bureau had recovered about Rs256bn over the past four years. But he did not say how much of this amount consisted of plea bargain or voluntary return.

The problem is not NAB alone, but Democracy itself. Wherever democracy exists, neglect and exploitation of the people by the few elite will always occur. It is a world wide phenomenon that the richest people are those with access to political power in democracy, either directly or through sponsorship of politicians. Democracy was never meant to grant justice to the masses, and instead was conceived to concentrate power and subsequently wealth into the hands of a few. This is made clear in the following statement by Madison, the Founder of the American Constitution who stated, “landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”  And Democrat Robert C Byrd lamented of his democratic country as “an administration of the wealthy, by the wealthy, for the wealthy…Today I weep for my country”. In modern democracies, land owners have been replaced by the corporate businessmen, industrialists, property owners and political dynasties.

The immense concentration of wealth in these hands is legalized through man made legislation under democracy. The political families make wealth because they have usurped from society sources of huge revenue. Specifically, the predominately state properties and public properties, such as large scale arms manufacture, banking and energy industry. This is why in America, Britain and France, there are ruling dynasties of large capitalists. There is an immense concentration of the wealth, such that ninety per cent of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of less than five per cent. The Muslim World, under its current agent rulers, simply follows the global trend set by Democracy.

The only way to end corruption is to abolish democracy itself. The practical means to achieve that is the immediate granting of Nussrah from the armed forces for the establishment of the Khilafah.