In the aftermath of a militant attack that left 17 Indian soldiers dead at an army base in Kashmir, the India government immediately labelled Pakistan a terrorist state. The accusation comes after weeks of brutal suppression of Kashmiri protesters demanding greater rights from the Hindu dominated federal government. The seven decades old, protracted conflict

Recent weeks have seen India launch a crackdown on the Muslims living in Kashmir. So far 58 Muslims have died since July 8th with many more being detained by the Indian security forces. This is not something new as the Ummah there has been faced with such oppression by the Hindu state since as far as it can remember. Massacre after massacre, false promise after false promise

The Western definition of terrorism is "violence initiated by non-state actors" and all individuals who take up arms are branded “terrorists” without taking in to consideration the political and ideological context which forced them to take up arms. The Western definition of terrorism is particularly important in the context of colonialism as the West controls all state actors in the Muslim World...

The Iranian journalist, Nozhan Etezadosaltaneh, on behalf of Tehran newspaper, Shargh Daily, conducted an interview with Osman Bakhach, the Director of Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir; the interview was published on 21 May 2016.