Headlines:

• Raheel-Nawaz Regime Betrays the Uighur Muslims in East Turkestan
• Limiting Pakistan to “Tit-for-Tat” with India Denies It its True Potential
• Get Rid of Democracy, the Cause of the Non-Implementation of Islam

 

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Raheel-Nawaz Betrays the Uighur Muslims of East Turkestan

As reported in Dawn on 28 October 2016, Chief of the Army Staff, Gen Raheel Sharif, on 27 October visited the National Counter Terrorism Training Centre (NCTC) at Pabbi and witnessed the Pakistan-China Joint Special Forces exercise, ‘YOUYI-VI 2016’. The two-week-long exercise was focused on exchange of experiences of counterterrorism operations and field combat between the two armed forces. He said such exercises would consolidate the special relationship with Chinese armed forces and help eliminate terrorism from the region.

Just as many Western countries have exploited the term of counter-terrorism to suppress Muslims around the world, China has used counter-terrorism to ruthlessly suppress the Uighur Muslims of East Turkistan. East Turkestan is currently a usurped Muslim Land, which China insists on calling Xinjiang, where its security forces regularly raid houses, interrogate, persecute, arrest and torture Muslims. Furthermore, the vehemently atheist Chinese regime has previously passed several legislations to prevent Muslims from practicing individual Islamic rituals. In its belligerency against Islam, China has gone to an extent that it has restricted civil servants, students and children from fasting Ramadhan, as government websites announced on 6 June 2016, when it also ordered restaurants to stay open in East Turkestan. It has gone even further, announcing the implementation of laws from 1st November 2016 under which young Muslim youth will be separated from their parents if they are being taught Islam by their parents. The legislation examines cases where parents, “organize, lure or force minors into attending religious activities.” The new legislation states that,“Any group or person has the right to stop these kinds of behaviours and report them to the public security authorities”, and that parents and guardians should not promote so-called “extremist” beliefs in children nor force them to dress in “extremist clothing.” The Raheel-Nawaz regime is well aware of the atrocities against the Uighur Muslims. Yet, this shameless regime has not only been silent over the oppression of Uighur Muslims, it is embracing the Chinese military in joint counter-terrorism exercises, which will bolster China in its illegal occupation of East Turkistan.

Islam mandates that our Uighur Muslim brethren are liberated from the oppressive Chinese regime. However, successive regimes in Pakistan have instead supported the belligerent Kuffar, seeking honor from them and exposing the Ummah to harm at their hands, even when Allah has clearly forbidden to do so,

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لاَ تَتَّخِذُوا عَدُوِّي وَعَدُوَّكُمْ أَوْلِيَاءَ تُلْقُونَ إِلَيْهِمْ بِالْمَوَدَّةِ وَقَدْ كَفَرُوا بِمَا جَاءَكُمْ مِنْ الْحَقِّ

“O you who believe! Choose not My enemies who are your enemies as friends showing them affection even when they disbelieve in that truth that has come to you”

(Surah Mumtahina 60:1)

 

Limiting Pakistan to “Tit-for-Tat” With India Denies It Its True Potential

As reported in Dawn on 27 October 2016, the Foreign Secretary of Pakistan expressed deep concern over the activities of the Indian official, that were in violation of the Vienna Convention and established diplomatic norms, stating, “The Indian High Commission has been asked to make urgent necessary arrangements for Surjeet Singh and his family to leave Pakistan by October 29, 2016.” This was done in a response to India’s expulsion a Pakistani high commission staff member for “espionage activities”, a foreign ministry official had said, as local media reported that New Delhi police had detained him.

In the aftermath of the Uri attack, followed-up by Indian claims of surgical strikes within Pakistan’s territory, tensions have risen between Pakistan and India. There is a long history of animosity against India and the Muslims of Pakistan have always rejected the notion of submission before India. Under the pressure of the Pakistan street which is furious at ongoing Indian atrocities against the Muslims of Kashmir, the regime has adopted a tit-for-tat policy whether it is regarding the proscription of airing Indian channels, limitations to trade or Line of Control border violations. However, this tit-for-tat policy exposes the regime’s submission to the US State Department’s demand for “restraint” which means that the vision.

And when the regime has established such restraint for itself, it will even fall below the low bar it has set, failing even to follow through consistently on the tit-for-tat policy.  In its bid to isolate Pakistan, India lobbied for the cancellation of the SAARC meeting scheduled in Pakistan but the Raheel-Nawaz regime could not bring itself to respond in kind. As reported in Dawn the  Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on 24 October 2016 confirmed that Pakistan will be attending the upcoming Heart of Asia conference scheduled to be held in India. Such a climb down is no surprise as the US has been urging the Raheel-Nawaz regime to de-escalate the tensions and start peace talks with India. The US-plan for South Asia is clear, restraint for Pakistan and unbridled expansion for India. The US wants India to address its two regional concerns, China and the Islamic revival, whereas Pakistan must simply stand aside and make way for the rise of India.

The Raheel-Nawaz regime does not care for the continued oppression of the Muslims in Kashmir, nor for the dozens of soldiers and civilians killed at the LOC by the Indian army in recent weeks as it’s vision is blinkered by Washington. The current rulers have pursued the US policies of supporting Indian hegemony in the region, which is detrimental for Pakistan’s stability and security. Having abundant natural and human resources with one of the world’s most capable armed forces, Pakistan only need a sincere and aware leadership, ruling by Islam, to arise as a world power, leaving behind its days of tit-for-tat far behind. The Khilafah upon the Method of Prophethood will implement Islam, strive to make Islam dominate in world affairs, thwart the US plans for Indian supremacy in the region, sever ties with belligerent states and liberate the Muslims of Occupied Kashmir finally and decisively, as a milestone towards the re-opening of all of India to Islam.

فَلاَ تَهِنُوا وَتَدْعُوا إِلَى السَّلْمِ وَأَنْتُمْ الأَعْلَوْنَ وَاللَّهُ مَعَكُمْ وَلَنْ يَتِرَكُمْ أَعْمَالَكُمْ

“So do not lose heart and beg for peace while you are superior. Allah is with you and He will never deprive you of (the reward of) your deeds.)”

(Surah Muhammad 47:35)

 

Get Rid of Democracy, the Cause of the Non-Implementation of Islam

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has once again asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign after initiation of the hearing of an alleged corruption case against him by the Supreme Court. Addressing a 2 November “Thanksgiving rally,” a hasty climb down from a threatened complete lockdown of Islamabad, Mr Khan expressed the hope that the nation would “get rid” of rulers during November as the Supreme Court judges had stated that they wanted a swift conclusion of the case. For his part, ruling PML-N’s Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, expressed profound satisfaction over matters being referred to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, thanking the nation for “rejecting un-parliamentary forces and the politics of agitation.”

Imran Khan has got it wrong. It’s not only the current rulers that must we must “get rid” of. Democracy itself must be got rid of as it is a continuation of the British Raj occupation that abolished Islamic rule in the Indian Subcontinent in the first place. Even though the Muslims shed their pure blood to establish Pakistan in the name of Islam, it was the British Parliament that created Pakistan’s initial legislation under its Indian Independence Act of 1947. Even though Pakistan produced its first Democratic constitution in 1956, this and every subsequent constitution, including the present 1973 Democratic constitution, has been framed around British secular law. Whilst secularism is unlike atheism, as it does not deny the Creator, it is exactly the same as atheism in denying the Creator سبحانه وتعالى  being the sole Sovereign over humankind, ordering and forbidding them according to all that He سبحانه وتعالى revealed. Instead, secularism gives human-beings the choice to obey Allah سبحانه وتعالى or disobey Him, even though Allah سبحانه وتعالى has revealed,

وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلاَ مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَضَى اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَمْرًا أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُمْ الْخِيَرَةُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ وَمَنْ يَعْصِ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلاَلاً مُبِينًا

“It is not befitting for a believing man or woman to have any choice in a matter, when it has been decided upon by Allah and His Messenger.”

(Surah Al-Ahzab 33:36)

The current Democratic constitution gives rise to the ruling system of democracy, which assigns assemblies of men and women as sovereign, allowing them to choose laws according to their whims and desires, even though Allah سبحانه وتعالى said,

وَأَنِ احْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِمَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ وَلَا تَتَّبِعْ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ وَاحْذَرْهُمْ أَنْ يَفْتِنُوكَ عَنْ بَعْضِ مَا أَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ إِلَيْكَ

“And judge between them by what Allah has revealed, and do not follow their desires, and beware (O Muhammad) that they might seduce you from some of what Allah has sent down to you.”

(Surah Al-Maaida 5:49)

The Objectives Resolution of 1949 does not fix secular democracy’s denial of Allah سبحانه وتعالى as sole and effective Sovereign over humankind. In fact, although this resolution begins by stating that ‘sovereignty over the entire universe belongs to Allah Almighty alone,’ it promptly transfers this sovereignty to the ‘Constituent Assembly,’ an assembly of men and women, though Islam mandates sovereignty is only for Allah سبحانه وتعالى. As for Article 227 of the constitution that provides for all existing laws to be brought in “conformity with the injunctions of Islam,” again this article gives the ultimate choice to the assembly.

It is Democracy, designed by and inherited from the colonialist Kuffar that separates our Ummah from Islam and its ruling system of Khilafah, whether in Pakistan, Egypt or Turkey, Tunisia or Indonesia. The claim that yet more elections within this system would bring change of system is a lie made to secure this system from abolition. Anyone who becomes part of democracy can never bring any change whosoever he may be and forever long he ruled. It is upon us all to turn away from this rotten system now and mobilize for the establishment of the Khilafah (Caliphate) on the Method of the Prophethood.