Pakistan today released the murderer Raymond Davis who on 27th January shot dead two Pakistani youth in Lahore whom he alleged were trying to rob him. The Pakistani government past and present allowed Blackwater to carry out blasts and kidnap citizens but this incident proved that these treacherous rulers have given the Americans a license to kill. It is hard to find a worse example than that of the ‘Chief Traitor’ (Chief Minister) of Punjab who did his level best to save the American killer through the Punjab police.
The Police immediately declared the murdered youth as “dacoits”. They did not care to ask why Davis shot the youth in the back if it was an act of self defence. Nor did they question why the American killer shot through the front windscreen of his car instead of side windows, which is usually the case whilst resisting a robbery. The authorities made no attempt to investigate why Davis had filmed and photographed his victims. This incident brought back memories of Iraq where Blackwater massacred whomever they wished with complete impunity. The question is what else remains to be done now in Pakistan! Is a bigger treason possible than this? The treason of the Pakistani ruling parties as well as the ‘friendly opposition’ has been completely exposed.
The debate immediately went onto whether Raymond Davis should be allowed diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention even though he did not have diplomatic status. Also who was present in the second car which knocked down and killed another Pakistani Muslim is still a mystery? It is believed that these culprits have fled the country with John Kerry who had come to secure the release of Raymond Davis. Why was the Obama Administration in such a hurry to get Raymond Davis out of Pakistan using the diplomatic immunity excuse? What did they have to be worried about if this was just an attempted robbery and Davis is innocent of any crime with nothing to hide?
How many more Davis’s are roaming the streets of Pakistan that the PPP government have allowed in without security checks and bypassing normal vetting procedures before visas are issued?
There are reports that 851 Americans have diplomatic status in Pakistan and there is also a lot of infiltration taking place along the Durand Line (Af/Pak border). It has come to light now that Davis is a CIA spy and was on some kind of a secret mission. To understand his mission we should not look at this incident in isolation from what the American foreign policy is in this region. Many thought Obama would use the soft power of diplomacy rather than more of the same neo-con policies of his predecessor George W Bush.
The Bush regime invaded Iraq and then wreaked havoc on its people. It’s clear now that nothing has changed and whoever was optimistic about Obama forgot to listen to what he said about Iraq being a mistake and that Afghanistan should have been the priority. The question is what is this ‘extremist’ threat that America and the West see? When Pharaoh was told that there was to be a child born who will destroy his kingdom, he began to kill every male child of Bani Israel. He treated the Bani Israel as slaves in the same manner that America keeps ordering Pakistan to ‘do more’. In a similar way America knows that the call for the Khilafah is taking deep root in the minds of the Muslims and is doing everything to stop it from being established.
Indeed in an interview with the BBC Radio 4, the retired UK armed forces chief and advisor to the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, General Richard Dannatt confessed that; “there is an Islamist agenda which if we don’t oppose it and face it off in Southern Afghanistan, or Afghanistan, or in South Asia, then frankly that influence will grow. It could well grow, and this is an important point, we could see it moving from South Asia to the Middle East to North Africa, and to the high water mark of the Islamic caliphate in the 14th, 15th century”.
This policy to keep the Af/Pak region in a constant state of instability achieves American interests of dealing with all potential threats to their interests. It is for this reason that whenever the US demands the Pakistani Army to engage in a military operation, public opinion is created by terrorist attacks on the Pakistani army as well as civilian targets within Pakistan. It is in order to fulfil this aim that the likes of Davis and others prepare and organise such atrocities. After that the Pakistani Government attempts to justify launching a military operations and this cycle is repeated again and again.
Like dictatorship, democracy failed to protect the Muslims of Pakistan. Prime Minister Gillani has reiterated that Pakistan is fighting its own war and not America’s and is prepared to continue to kill and wipe-out ‘extremists’ and terrorists by employing the army for this purpose.
The Muslims who call for an Islamic Khilafah in Pakistan are being accused of creating a state within a state and challenging the writ or sovereignty of Pakistan. Where does this writ or sovereignty go when America crosses over the Durand line and kills Pakistani soldiers or when America kills using drone attacks within Pakistan? America on the one hand is saying that Pakistan is an ally in the WOT and also at the same time undermines Pakistan by siding with India.
The truth of the matter is that it is America that needs Pakistan and not the other way round as the US needs its supply line that runs through Pakistan to the Afghan war. Bruce Riedel, who chaired an Afghanistan-Pakistan review for Barak Obama at the start of 2009 outlined US dependency on Pakistan, he said: “Let’s suppose that Kayani authorised Mumbai and watched it on television cheering, What are we going to do about it?” Recalling the supply line blockade, he added: “When the Pakistanis close the Khyber pass, what are our forces in Afghanistan going to start eating, what are they going to drink?”
What this episode has shown us is the blatant disregard for the Muslims of Pakistan by the US. Even the treacherous Pakistan rulers are finding it difficult to sell out the Ummah this time. These tyrants and oppressors of the Ummah need to be replaced by the Khilafah State which will carry Islam intellectually as well as militarily to protect its citizens and free the Muslim World from the clutches of Capitalism. That is when this blessing will truly become a reality and the Muslim Ummah can live in peace and tranquillity.