End the Colonialist Interference in Our Affairs by Establishing Khilafah
After the PTI Chief’s meeting with the US Ambassador on 22 November, debate has erupted amongst the people. Richard Olson is the representative of a colonialist power in Pakistan. Anyone from the political or military leadership who meets him would only strengthen colonialism in Pakistan because he would confirm US stake in Pakistan’s political process. The colonialist trap here is evident. The colonialists find excuses to interfere in our affairs through offers of “help” and “assistance” only to find ways and means to subjugate and control us. The only reason why Richard Olson would meet Imran Khan is to size him up for US service. The only reason Imran Khan would meet the US ambassador is that he knows that the corridor of power to Islamabad goes through Washington.
The Khilafah alone will treat hostile non-Muslim states on a war stance and end the free roaming of US Ambassadors. 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.”
Barking at America, whilst Heeling and Rolling Over to its Commands
Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif declared on 25 December that, “The Americans have been our friends for a long time since the ’60s and the ’70s but their reliability is relative…American foreign policy has been disastrous for this region,” whilst addressing an audience at the Institute of Strategic Studies.
Stating the obvious will not lessen the anger of the people at the regime’s blind allegiance to America. Nor are the people naive enough to believe that this statement is a signal that the regime is abandoning agency to the West in favour of an independent foreign policy. Indeed in the same speech the Defence Minister did not deviate one inch from American interests in the region, specifically acceptance of the American occupation of Afghanistan as the status quo and making way for India’s rise as the unfit, dominant regional player through normalization.
Barking at America, whilst heeling and rolling over to its commands is wearing thin. The Ummah senses the need for real change which only the Khilafah can bring. The Khilafah will treat this hostile belligerent nation on a war stance, expelling its diplomatic, intelligence, military and private military from Pakistan. It will prevent the free access of its officials to rulers and members of assemblies within the state. And it will unify the Ummah, benefiting of its immense resources, as a basis for raising Islam as the dominant influence in the world.
Jihad to Expel Occupation is a Duty
Whilst calling for peace in Afghanistan on 25 November, the Defence Minister said nothing regarding the American aggression and occupation that caused the instability in the first place. Nor did he praise the brave resistance of Muslims to the American occupation, which is no less brutal and dangerous for the region’s Muslims than the previous Soviet Russian occupation. Moreover, the West and its agents, the Muslim rulers, push a flawed concept upon the Muslim populace: that anywhere in the Muslim World wherever the Muslim people are physically occupied, they must not respond with physical force in return. What this practically means is that physical occupation should only be fought through non-violent means via political or intellectual struggle. So those who fight the Indian occupation in Kashmir are terrorists. Those who fight the American occupation in Afghanistan are terrorists. Those who resist the Israeli occupation of the Holy land are terrorists. The West knows that Muslim states are in their control and would never move their armies to free occupied Muslim lands. However it cannot control the valiant Ummah and its brave sons. Hence it propagated the idea of “violence by non-state actors” as “terrorism”. So any violence by non-state actors is termed “terrorism” whether it is aimed at removing physical occupation or not.
So in origin “terrorism” is a dangerous concept for the Ummah. For it is a political term conceived by the West to attack the idea of defensive Jihad within the Muslim people. And this is an attack on the Muslim mind. Therefore the Ummah should be vigilant about Western narratives on the War on Terror and reject them altogether. Muslims will never give up their right to physically defend their lands, life, property and honor with or without the Islamic Khilafah State. And let us not forget, if the Muslim States had done their duty to defend Muslim lands, the issue of non-state actors would never have arisen in the first place. We need Khilafah for the Muslim World.
Opposition is as Bankrupt on the Economy as the Regime
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Senator, Mian Raza Rabbani, in his capacity as leader of the opposition, declared on 26 December that the federal government’s privatization plan is tantamount to selling national strategic institutions in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.
This is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The PPP itself whilst in power first ensured the privatization of the power sector, with the formation of Independent Power Producers (IPPs), for which the people of Pakistan are still paying the cost, whilst the PPPs entourage benefitted from the privatization. The PML-N adheres to Democracy too and so its cronies have benefitted from continuing privatization of the energy sector, amongst others. Democracy always guarantees excessive privileges for the elite in power and gross deprivation for the people. Democracy links authority with sovereignty, so those who are elected to power, have the right to make law according to their whims and desires. This ensures that the law-makers are able to amass immense wealth for themselves and their associates by manipulating laws in their favor. Wherever Democracy exists, small elites have changed law to ensure their private ownership of the sources of great wealth, whether it is electricity, oil, gas, minerals, large scale industry and arms manufacture.
Islam uniquely will end the cycle of exploitation that Democracy ensures. Islam has mandated that electricity, oil, gas and minerals are a public property, whose benefit is for the citizens of the state, rather than a small elite. Moreover, the Khilafah will establish a strong industry so that it dominates key areas such as large-scale construction, engines and telecommunication.
US Pleased at Pakistan’s Inaction Against its Occupation
In an interview to Dawn published on 28 November, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Feldman, gushed with pleasure at the Pakistan Army Chief’s commitment to America’s war. “People in Washington were very pleased with his commitment” to fighting all terrorists, including the Haqqani network, he said, while talking about the Pakistan army chief’s much-talked about visit to the United States last week. “We also recognise that more work needs to be done, but there’s true commitment from Gen Sharif to deliver on this,” said the US envoy.
American pleasure at Pakistan’s current commitment to its war is not surprising. Its cowardly occupying troops have not been able to face small numbers of poorly armed Pushtoon fighters, so the mere prospect of facing the world’s largest Muslim armed forces on the battlefield is unbearable. Instead, through using a malicious campaign of false flag attacks on Pakistan’s armed forces, America’s Raymond Davis network has worked to turn the situation on its head, with the Muslim armed forces fighting the resistance to the Kafir occupation on its behalf! It is high time that the Khilafah was established that will motivate the armed forces of the Muslims to seek the pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى only and obliterate the occupying forces wherever they defile Muslim soil. Allah سبحانه وتعالى says,
يا أيها الذين ءامنوا قاتِلوا الذين يَلونكم من الكفار وَلْيجِدوا فيكمْ غِلْظَةً واعْلَموا أنَّ اللّـهَ مع المتقين
“O you who believe! Fight the Unbelievers who gird you about, and let them find firmness in you: and know that Allah is with those who fear Him.”
(At-Tawba 9:123)