News:

Wednesday 16 December 2014 saw a tragedy unfold in Peshawar. Armed attackers struck the Army Public School, moving from classroom to classroom, killing well over one hundred, most of them of children. Following this attack, for which the shadowy Pakistani Taliban (TTP) group apparently claimed responsibility, Pak COAS Raheel Sharif announced a harsh response with further strikes in the tribal regions of Pakistan. He also flew to Afghanistan, together with ISI boss Rizwan Akhtar, to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Commander of Coalition Forces in Afghanistan General John Campbell seeking their support in what he claimed is a fight to eliminate terrorism. This attack also resulted in the ending of the political turmoil in Pakistan created by month's long dharna of Imran Khan.

Comment:

This attack is a heinous crime. Allah (swt) said,

((مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَنْ قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا))

"Because of that, We ordained for the Children of Israel that if anyone killed a person not in retaliation of murder, or (and) to spread mischief in the land - it would be as if he killed all mankind, and if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind." [Surah al-Maida 5:32]

However, such barbaric acts such as the killing of children are the direct outcome of American foreign policy, specifically the policies of low intensity conflict and covert "black" operations. The covert operations are an established American ploy, practiced by its intelligence and private military all over the world, to burn countries in the fires of confusion and insecurity. These barbaric acts are then used by the regime and its masters as a justification for low intensity conflict, in the case of Pakistan, military operations in the tribal areas, which the Americans need desperately to prevent resistance to their faltering occupation of Afghanistan.

The blood of these innocent children is thus on the hands of the traitors in the military and political leadership for allowing the US to exist on Pakistani soil and organize such attacks. On the one hand the regime claims that they are fighting American agents through operations in the tribal regions, yet on the other the regime allows a huge American presence on our soil to perpetrate its evil designs. This is why on the even when the traitorous rulers catch the American spies, such as Raymond Davis and Eugene Joel Cox, they promptly release them.

Regardless of whether this particular cowardly attack has been orchestrated by US intelligence- indeed, US operatives have been caught red-handed in the past, only to then be released! - or by some deluded Muslims exacting revenge, the blood of our children is not only on the hands of such perpetrators but also on the hands the traitors in the political and military leadership who have facilitated this chaos. The traitors in the Raheel-Nawaz regime whose agency to the US comes before any interests of the Ummah and its children.

The tribal Muslims, those who are sincerely fighting against the US occupation in Afghanistan, must denounce such massacres. They must not allow oppressors to speak on their behalf who are ignorant of Islam, such that he furthers the American plan through his disobedience of Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw).

The Raheel-Nawaz regime is announcing further attacks and operations. Yet it is these very attacks that caused the problem in the first place! The solution is not more operations - that will only make things worse - but to expel the American presence in Pakistan, along with its agents. The only solution which can take Pakistan out of this deplorable mess is for the sincere within the armed forces who hold the physical capability to put matters straight according to the command of Allah (swt) to cut the head of the snake and purify Pakistan of all American presence. They must close the American embassy and consulates, which are fortresses in all but name, expel the enemies that roam the country to contact and spend dollars as they please, the US diplomats including its ambassador as well as the US private military and intelligence operatives.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Sohaib Salman, Pakistan