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Pakistan's Regime Creating Pressure and Division among the Sincere Muslim Fighters of Afghanistan

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On 18th August 2015, the United States urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to continue to cooperate, so as to take the process of reconciliation with the Afghan Taliban forward, with the aim of ending violence in the region, Radio Pakistan reported. "The United States welcomes the dialogue and the cooperation that has taken place between the two countries," US State Department spokesperson John Kirby said during a press briefing. Earlier, Commander Resolute Support Mission & US Forces in Afghanistan General John Campbell, acknowledged the regimes efforts in bringing peace in Afghanistan, particularly its role in facilitating the recent peace talks between Taliban and the government in Kabul held in Murree.

Comment

America could never bring Afghan Taliban to the negotiation table without the support of the regime sitting in Islamabad. Most of the Afghan Taliban have strong relations and bases, used to attack US occupying forces in Afghanistan, within the tribal region of Pakistan. In order to pressurize them to take the bait offered by America, the Karachi Airport attack of June 2014 was used as an excuse to launch a full-fledged military operation, "Zarb-e-Azb," in North Waziristan, home of the most feared Haqqani network as well as other fighters who were formerly considered Pakistan's assets during the Jihad against USSR in 1980's. Then the December 2014 attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, in which almost one hundred and fifty people were killed, mostly children, was used to launch the National Action Plan to purge those fighters who wage Jihad against US occupying forces in Afghanistan, and are based in cities across Pakistan, particularly Karachi. These are the two major initiatives taken by Islamabad to force Afghan fighters to accept the US bait of "peace talks".
After the attack on the Army Public School Peshawar, Pakistan's Army Chief Raheel Sharif and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif made more than one visit to Kabul, apparently to ask for the handing over the masterminds of this horrific tragedy. However, that has not happened. Instead, we see that Kabul changed its tone towards Pakistan and "peace talks" are underway sponsored by Pakistan, under the watchful surveillance of America. This was sudden as both the Afghan government and the Afghan Talban had previously never showed any sign of confidence in the regime sitting in Islamabad.

It is now clear that the Raheel-Nawaz regime is making every effort to force the Afghan Mujahideen to come to the negotiating table and accept the terms and conditions set by the US. And the most important thing for the US is the recognition of its puppet government sitting in Kabul, as well as the secular constitution crafted by it. The declaration of Mullah Umar's death and the emergence of ISIS in Afghanistan are further being used by this regime to create disharmony and despair amongst the sincere Mujahideen so they can be pushed into a cage prepared by the US.

The most unfortunate thing about all of this is that America was neither in a position to achieve any of its desired objectives with respect to Afghanistan, nor save itself from losing the war, without the help of the Raheel-Nawaz regime. Instead of putting Pakistan's capabilities to create unity amongst Afghan Mujahedeen, expel the US from Afghanistan and erase an apparent danger sitting on the doorstep of a nuclear Pakistan, once for all, the Raheel-Nawaz regime took the side of America, so Washington can establish a substantial footprint in Afghanistan. And this is an open treachery against Allah (swt), His Messenger (saaw) and the Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan as Islam obliges waging Jihad in order to expel Kafir occupiers from Muslim Lands.

InshaAllah the upcoming Khilafah "Caliphate" will perform this duty easily by combining the strength and capability of both the armed forces of Pakistan and the sincere Mujahedeens. And by Allah's will this will happen soon.

إِنَّمَا يَنْهَاكُمُ ٱللَّهُ عَنِ ٱلَّذِينَ قَاتَلُوكُمْ فِى ٱلدِّينِ وَأَخْرَجُوكُم مِّن دِيَارِكُمْ وَظَاهَرُواْ عَلَىٰ إِخْرَاجِكُمْ أَن تَوَلَّوْهُمْ وَمَن يَتَوَلَّهُمْ فَأُوْلَـٰئِكَ هُمُ ٱلظَّالِمُونَ

"It is only as regards those who fought against you on account of religion, and have driven you out of your homes, and helped to drive you out, that Allah forbids you to befriend them. And whosoever will befriend them, then such are the Zalimun (wrong-doers those who disobey Allah)" [Al-Mumtahina: 09]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Shahzad Shaikh
Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan