Analysis, South Asia

Pakistan Headlines – 26 Sept 2015

Musharraf Endorses Extension for Raheel Sharif, One US Agent to Another

Former president retired General Pervez Musharraf called on 16 September for extending the tenure of Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif and warned against a change in the military leadership. Otherwise, he said, “Everything would go to waste”. In an interview with Samaa TV, Mr Musharraf, who himself had a five-year extension as army chief, said he was happy to see growing popularity of Gen Sharif because he was doing a “wonderful job” which needed to be continued. “I wish he carries on with all this he is doing,” he said. “What he is doing right now, it needs continuity and if there is any change in the leadership amidst this all, all good work which has been done so far would go in waste. So I can only wish and suggest that he should stay there.”

It is no surprise that Musharraf is fully supportive of Raheel because they are both subservient to America. Musharraf ensured the US military footprint in Afghanistan by extending all manner of support for it and then engaged our forces in the tribal areas to reduce resistance to the US presence and Raheel is continuing that policy. Musharraf made moves to ensure that Pakistan becomes subordinate to India as part of a regional bloc, in accordance to the American plan, and today Raheel, despite chest-beating, is supervising progress on normalization and ensuring there is no obstacle to it.

Musharraf forcefully suppressed any opposition to the American Raj and Raheel is following the same example through the National Action Plan. The Washington masters of Musharraf and Raheel know that there are few that are willing to betray their country to the level that is needed. So they are compelled to grant extensions until their current agent is completely spent. The only way to break this destructive cycle is for the sincere in the armed forces to uproot the traitors and grant Nussrah for the Khilafah.

 

Regime Shifts Blame on Private Sector, Hiding its Own Gross Neglect of Education

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, apparently putting his foot down, has ordered that no private schools should raise their fees in the year 2015. According to a brief statement, issued by the PM House on 20 September, the PM ordered the education ministry and the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) to implement this decision in true letter and spirit. The statement also said that the PM directed both ministries to hold consultative meetings with all stakeholders in order to devise a unanimously-accepted policy that regulates fee increases by private schools. The directions were part of an effort to come up with “proposed legislations in order to regulate and keep a check on profiteering by private schools”.

The heart of the issue is not how private schools are maintaining their profits in the face of ever rising taxation, utility costs and generalized inflation. The issue is the government’s monumental neglect of state education which forces struggling parents to turn to private schools for something nearly approaching education for their children. They put themselves under great financial pressure, selling their assets and falling into debt, in the hope that their children are given an education. This is again another glaring failure of the current non-Islamic system.

In the time of the Khilafah, the foremost educational institutions in the world were those that the Muslims founded and they were not private schools. Europeans used to learn Arabic to ensure that they were in pace with the latest scientific and technological advances. The Muslim Lands were a favoured destination for the world’s elite for education. The coming Khilafah will ensure again world leading education through funding from the vast resources of the state and public property, the latter of which includes minerals and energy resources, which the Muslims have in great abundance.

 

US Plan to Divide and Rule Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan

Confirming that the mastermind of the attack on the PAF base in Badaber, Peshawar, was operating out of Afghanistan, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on 22 September that nine of the 14 men who attacked the installation were foreigners. Amidst calls to forify the Durand Line, the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the minister also pointed out that the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan had already accepted responsibility for the attack and it was clear that the organisation was operating out of Afghanistan. Chaudhry Nisar said that instances of infiltration into Afghanistan from Pakistan had greatly reduced since the start of the military operation in tribal areas, adding that now it was incumbent upon Afghanistan to do the same on its side of the border. He said that it was not appropriate for Afghanistan to blame Pakistan for every terrorist attack taking place in that country.

The Afghanistan policy established by Musharraf, subsequently followed by Kiyani and now Raheel, is what has caused the divisions and tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan. This policy established and securing an American presence in Afghanistan, when what was required was fighting to end the presence, as also applied to the cases of the previous occupations, those of the Soviet Russians and British Imperialists. What was required was for the Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan’s armed forces, intelligence and the tribal Muslims on either side of the Durand Line to co-operate and eradicate the crusaders. Instead the traitors on the military leadership launched attacks on the tribal Muslims. To further ignite the fires of chaos US intelligence and private military initiated horrific attacks on the armed forces through utilizing corruptible elements such as the shadowy TTP, a malicious group that has been denounced by all the sincere within the tribal Muslim leadership.

The treacherous alliance with America has ensured that the colonialist policy of divide and rule is under full swing in the Af-Pak region. The immediate need of the time to smash the US plan to smithereens is the re-establishment of the Khilafah which will gather all the resources of the Muslims as one force, under the banner of La Ilaha ilAllah Muhammadur RasulAllah, against their enemies.

 

Kashmir Demands Liberation by the Armed Forces, Not More Talk

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that Kashmir is a core issue between Pakistan and India and it should be discussed at all levels and forums for an early resolution. “The sooner the two countries start working on it (Kashmir issue) the better it would be for them,” he said while talking to reporters in London on 22 September. The prime minister, who was in London on his way to the United States to attend the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly said, “This issue should be discussed not only at international forums but also at Pakistan-India bilateral level.” He said Pakistan had also engaged Afghanistan to ensure peace in the region. “The two countries have agreed not to allow their soils to be used again each other and Pakistan is strictly abiding by this commitment.”

The Hindu mushrikeen will understand no language except that of fire and steel. What is required is a visionary leadership, governing by Islam to finally liberate Kashmir comprehensively and conclusively, appreciating fully the strength of the Muslims and the weakness of the Kuffar. India’s foothold in Afghanistan is purely dependent on Pakistan, its logistical support, its intelligence and its professionally competent armed forces which is all currently misdirected to preventing tribal resistance against the American and Indian presence in Afghanistan. Politically, 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. Economically, 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. 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. And there are many non-hostile non-Muslim states in the region who resent the Indian hegemony. They are also amenable to access to the huge resources of the Muslim Lands. The first step to the liberation of Kashmir is the re-establishment of the Khilafah, which will put the Hindu state in its place within weeks and months, putting an end to the current limbo which has lasted for many decades.