News:
On 11th April 2015, UAE Minister of State for foreign affairs Anwar Mohammad Gargash said, “The vague and contradictory stands of Pakistan and Turkey are an absolute proof that Arab security — from Libya to Yemen — is the responsibility of none but Arab countries”. He added that Pakistan should take a clear position “in favour of its strategic relations with the six-nation Arab Gulf Cooperation Council”. This was in response to the Pakistan’s Parliament resolution passed on 10th April in which it was demanded from the government to stay out of the conflict in Yemen, where the Saudi-led coalition is bombing Houthi rebels and called for Pakistan to instead play a mediating role.
Comment:
The crisis in Yemen has created a very strong debate in Pakistan, whether to take side of the Saudi led coalition openly, or to play a role of mediator to defuse and resolve this crisis. The Raheel-Nawaz regime is presenting Pakistan’s role in this crisis as very critical and delicate because over a million of Pakistanis work in Saudi Arab and Gulf countries, sending over 60 percent of Pakistan’s remittance which is a large contribution to Pakistan’s economy. So although Pakistan has nuclear capability and the world’s seventh largest armed forces, the regime is claiming that the economy depends on remittances significantly. In actual fact, Pakistan’s economy is weakened because of the absence of the Islamic economic system in the country, which would free it from the interest based loans to colonialist financial institutions and ensure the proper utilization of Pakistan’s immense resources. On the other hand, the response from UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Mohammad Gargash and Saudi’s silent pressure on Pakistan to take part in the Saudi led coalition clearly demonstrates the weakness of these less powerful states in defending themselves, although they have enormous energy wealth.
After the fall of the Khilafah, Britain and France created a number of Muslim countries, but ensured that many of these are smaller states, either lacking the resources to run the economy or the military might to defend themselves or both, such as UAE and Afghanistan. They ensured other states were very capable, but through their agents, they only move on the bidding of their colonialist masters, such as Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey. This was all to ensure colonialist control, as part of the divide and rule policy. This is a tragedy because such powerful states alone are capable of being the starting point for the Khilafah by themselves. And less powerful states can easily be annexed to a strong Khilafah, with the unified state becoming even stronger. However, today, the current rulers justify their treacherous stances on the basis of weaknesses or other excuses, so as to free themselves from blame.
The Yemen crisis has also shown that when America or any other western colonialist ask the traitors in the leadership of the Muslims to close their ranks and amalgamate their forces to safeguard colonialist interests, they do so swiftly. However, when the Islamic Ummah’s calls for the combined forces to move in order to protect the honor of Islam and Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم and the sanctity of Muslim blood, the traitors give thousands of excuses for not following the desire of the Ummah. Moreover, these traitors scorn at the notion of a Khilafah to unify all the Muslims as a single state, even though this is the practical and required step to foil the colonialist plans in a permanent manner!
The terrible crisis in Yemen is because of the absence of Khilafah. Only bringing back the Khilafah will end such tragedies as its combined wealth and military will not only be unmatched by any other power within a short amount of time inshaaAllah, it will have the Help and Support of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the Lord of the Worlds.
إِنَّ هَـٰذِهِ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً وَأَنَاْ رَبُّكُمْ فَٱعْبُدُونِ
“Truly! This, your Ummah is one Ummah, and I am your Lord, therefore worship Me (Alone)”
(Al-Anbiya: 92)
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir by
Shahzad Shaikh
Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan