News:

The Pakistan army said in a statement that Captain Sarfraz was killed "due to Indian troops' unprovoked shelling at Shakma sector on line of control". According to the statement, another soldier was also seriously injured when Indian forces opened fire at Shakma sector near the town of Skardu on Tuesday 16 September at 11:15pm local time. Narendra Modi has accused Pakistan of waging a proxy war in Kashmir. He said troops were "suffering more casualties from terrorism than from war", according to the government's press information bureau website.

Comment:

Recent weeks have seen an escalation in tensions between Pakistan and India along the Line of Control in Kashmir, which runs through Muslim Kashmir, dividing it into India Occupied Kashmir and liberated Kashmir. India has been consistently targeting civilians and army personnel on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control, killing and injuring a number of civilians and soldiers, as well as damaging property. At first, the electronic media did not report much regarding these incidents, as they were totally focused upon the sit-ins in the capital city, Islamabad. Moreover, the Raheel-Nawaz regime did not care to condemn Indian aggression, as it will spoil its efforts to normalize ties with India, as instructed by its masters sitting in Washington. But when these incidents happened consistently and the electronic media highlighted these Indian aggressions, as well as the resulting casualties, then the Raheel-Nawaz regime was compelled to issue statements condemning Indian aggressions.

Pakistan changed its stance towards the issue of Kashmir when America succeeded in bringing India into a sphere of influence in 1996, at the time of Clinton administration. Before that America considered Kashmir as a disputed territory and demanded its resolution as per the United Nations Resolutions. America always used the issue of Kashmir as a stick to agitate, pressurize and infuriate India. So from 1947 till 2000, America used traitors in the political and military leadership of Pakistan to embarrass India through the issue of Kashmir. During that era, Pakistan helped the Muslims of Kashmir politically, financially and even militarily by allowing Jihadi organizations of Kashmir to operate freely in Pakistan. India tried to stop incursion from the Pakistani side by building a long 500 km wire fence along the Line of Control. However, it was never able to do so, as whenever India tried, Pakistani troops prevented them by firing and heavy shelling. However, when America decided to use the carrot instead of the stick, the traitors in the political and military leadership also aligned Pakistan's Kashmir policy with US policy. After this, Kashmiri Jihadi organizations were banned and their activities declared as terrorism, India promptly constructed the 550km long fence along the Line of Control in 2004 without any resistance from Pakistani troops and Musharraf presented the idea of cutting Kashmir in to five territories, two controlled by Pakistan, two by India and the fifth, Central Kashmir, will be governed jointly under the umbrella of United Nations.

After the formation of BJP government In India, America is very hopeful that Modi will be able to convince the Indian establishment and intelligentsia regarding the resolution of Kashmir as per the US plan. However, in order to do so, Modi must first build his image as a hardliner who hates Pakistan and is always ready to engage Pakistan militarily. This will help Modi to take on board all the stakeholders in India. As far as the Pakistani political and military leadership is concerned, they already have no shame, so they will accept whatever US ask them, without any care for the rights of the Muslims.

The history of Pakistan confirms that whether it was democracy or dictatorship, every ruler used the issue of Kashmir for the benefit of US. Kashmir and its people can only be liberated by the Khilafah "Caliphate". It is an obligation from Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw) to liberate occupied Muslim lands. So the incoming Khilafah "Caliphate" will erase borders between Muslims lands. It will consolidate their material and military resources to form a formidable army of a million soldiers and Mujahideen, who will march to Srinagar and once again raise the flag of Islam.

((وَأَنْفِقُواْ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَلاَ تُلْقُواْ بِأَيْدِيكُمْ إِلَى ٱلتَّهْلُكَةِ وَأَحْسِنُوۤاْ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُحِبُّ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ))

"And spend in the Cause of Allah (i.e. Jihad of all kinds, etc.) and do not throw yourselves into destruction (by not spending your wealth in the Cause of Allah), and do good. Truly, Allah loves Al-Muhsinun (the good-doers)." [al-Baqara: 195]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Shahzad Shaikh

Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan