Pakistan Headlines 01/02/2015
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IMF Sabotages Electricity Supply through Privatization
As people in smaller towns and rural areas across the country and in Azad Kashmir continued to face electricity blackouts on 25 January, after the country's worst ever nationwide blackout, the government attributed the national crisis to sabotage by rebels and claimed to have restored 7,500MW supply against a nationwide demand of 11,500MW. However, the question that must be asked is why even without rebel sabotage, in normal day, people spend half their day without electricity, in a stop-start mode of life which greatly increases stress? Why is this the case when the installed capacity is almost double the current winter season demand?
The answer lies in the government approval of the IMF sabotage, the private ownership of the power sector. This is sabotage because it not only deprives the people of a great source of revenue to look after their affairs, it also means that private owners, who have limited resources, only provide electricity when they can profit. They cannot provide electricity as a service and a right for all citizens, for that is the job of a responsible and caring state. This is why privatization is directly responsible for the power shortages, the load-shedding. So, private owners reduce electricity generation to prevent falling into loss through debts owed to them. Or they reduce generation to only the more efficient power plants because they give a better profit, keeping less efficient power plants idle. So, even though Pakistan has an installed capacity which is almost double the winter demand, less than half of its capacity is being used, causing huge electricity shortages, twelve hours a day or even more. And that is asides from these highly disruptive shortages destroying local industry.
Nothing less than the abolition of Democracy and its IMF designed policies will end sabotage of Pakistan's resources. Islam mandates electricity is a public property, whose entire wealth is for the benefit of the public. This law will only be implemented by the Khilafah "Caliphate", as it is alone the Islamic State.
American-Indian Nexus Can Only Be Countered by Khilafah "Caliphate"
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed on a joint strategic vision for regions straddling Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean on 25 January, as debate in Pakistan became widespread regarding its implications. America is supporting India's rise as the dominant regional power to both counter its rival China and the Muslim's emergence as an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" state. America is encouraging India to increase its influence in the region, as far afield as Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca, one of the most critical naval and trade choke-points in the world.
As for Pakistan, America fully realizes that Pakistan has the power to overturn its plan should it oppose it, whereas its submission will ensure its success. That is why every regime that serves America has played a critical role in furthering this American plan by striking hard at Pakistan's capabilities. America fears the love of Jihad within Muslims, which is the Ummah's most powerful weapon on the battlefield, so America's agents abandoned and then persecuted the groups fighting India for the complete liberation of Kashmir. The American agents then ensnared Pakistan's armed forces in America's war against the Muslims in the tribal regions. These agents then made radical changes in the Army's green book, so that Pakistan's military was focused inwards, rather than towards India, shifting the majority of Pakistan's forces from the Eastern border to the Western border.
Not content with striking at Pakistan's military strength, the American agents also work to diminish Pakistan's political influence and economic power. The American agents in the regime draw Pakistan into regional conferences that are dominated by India, whilst India herself aspires for a permanent membership of the UN Security Council, the cauldron of the Ummah's miseries. These measures allow the Hindu State to interfere strongly in Pakistan's political affairs, even though Muslims have only known harm whenever the Hindu has had any degree of authority over them. Regarding the economy, through establishing energy deals, the regime provides energy starved India a much needed stake in the immense energy resources of the Ummah in Central Asia and the Middle East. As for the trade deals, the regime fulfils the American strategy that industries such as information technology, aircraft manufacture and even space travel are for the Hindu to establish, whereas light and service industries such as tourism, rug weaving and sports equipment manufacture are for the Muslim.
Only the Khilafah "Caliphate" will consolidate the immense resources of the Ummah as one state to challenge the American-Indian nexus.
Khilafah "Caliphate" will Unify the Muslim Lands as One State to Counter Foreign Hegemony
Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif concluded his two-day China trip on 26 January by calling for greater international support for Pakistan to win its fight against terrorism. Military spokesman Maj Gen Asim Bajwa, who accompanied the army chief, said in a twitter post before starting the journey back home, that Gen Sharif while thanking the Chinese leaders for hosting him emphasised that "world must understand evolving environment. Greater international focus, coordination needed to logically conclude fight against terrorism."
The current rulers know well that there is a strong anti-American feeling in Pakistan and the people sense the devastation caused by America's war on terror. Thus, whenever the rulers travel to Beijing, Moscow or European cities, it is presented and promoted as if it is a statesmen-like action to find a way out of dependence on America.
Turning from the big Shaytan to smaller ones is not the way to build the strength of Muslims against aggressors. The strength of the Muslims will only occur by unifying their immense resources as one state. This mandates the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate" first in a strong area, whether one powerful country or a group of Muslim countries. This Khilafah "Caliphate" will be a starting point for the reunification of the Muslim Lands as one state, with one State Treasury, one immense armed forces and one Ummah to stand with strength against foreign aggressors. Until this done, Muslims will witness the current rulers making trips East and West, whilst the Muslim Land plunge deeper into oblivion.
Democracy Will Never Protect Islam and the Honor of RasulAllah (saw)
A conference of 33 political and religious parties lauded on 26 January a statement by Pope Francis criticising the publication of objectionable caricatures by a French magazine. "We are thankful to the pope for his support to our stance," Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid said during the conference held by the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC).
The assembled pro-Democracy parties accepted the Information Minister's praises for the Christian Pope, whilst neglecting their responsibility to account the regime for not backing its words with the threat of force, despite commanding the largest Muslim armed forces in the world. Moreover, did not it not occur to even one Democrat to ask the Minister: is there no one else worthy of praise other than the head of a Church which has sanctioned every American crusade against Muslims in recent times?
We will never see our RasulAllah (saw) avenged as he deserves to be avenged until we see the return of our Khilafah "Caliphate". Remember that even in the weakest period of our Khilafah "Caliphate" the Uthmani Khilafah "Caliphate", it announced war against Britain and France, the major world powers at the time, for similar defamation. Voltaire's "Mahomet ou le fanatisme?" was staged as a play in Europe, defaming RasulAllah (saw). The Khaleefah, Abdul Hameed II, summoned the French ambassador and kept him waiting for hours. He then emerged in full battle dress, drew out his sword from its scabbard and placed it with its point towards the French ambassador as a declaration of war. Then without saying a single word and he sent him away. And when Britain displayed arrogance, he spoke in a language they would understand, threatening them with war by the entire Ummah. Accordingly, Britain and France abandoned their mischief.
Regime Exploits Fuel to Benefit Private Owners and Colonialist Financial Institutions
As the Middle East crude oil price dipped to $47 a barrel, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) recommended on 29 January more than 10 per cent reduction in prices of petroleum products for the month of February. However, the regime is doing its best to keep prices of fuel raised and is resisting reduction, asides from increasing taxation on fuel. Apart from Rs6 to Rs14 per litre petroleum levy, the government also charges 22 per cent general sales tax on prices of oil products. The general sales tax on petroleum products fixed by the government at 17 per cent in the budget, was increased by five per cent last month through a statutory regulator order of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
The IMF, the World Bank and the Raheel-Nawaz regime work together to continuously maintain high prices of fuel, in order to guarantee strong profits for the new private owners, even though it causes great hardship for the people. Ahead of its upcoming privatization, the state run Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) on 5 August 2014, posted a record Rs124 billion profit in 2013-14, up 36 per cent over the previous year. This shows that the privatization is occurring of the profitable of companies and this is not in the interest of the Muslim Ummah in addition to the violation of the "Hukm Sharie" in which Oil and Gas are public property. Also the constant raising of oil and gas prices ensures that the people will take on more of the burden of ensuring profits.
As if this were not enough, having deprived Pakistan of huge sources of revenue, the colonialists through their agents greatly increase taxation on the population, further strangling the economy. This is done in order to raise revenues to pay back foreign interest based loans, even though Pakistan has paid back the principle sums of such colonialist loans many times over. It is this colonialist trap, which is designed to prevent Pakistan from ever escaping and rising as a power.
The cure to Pakistan's economic illness does not lie in privatization, foreign investment or colonialist loans for they are the disease itself. The only cure is the implementation of Islam's economic system, which alone would generate more than enough revenue to revolutionize the economy. Unlike Capitalism and Communism, Islam has declared that energy is neither a private nor a state property but a public property for all the Muslims. Thus, although the Khilafah "Caliphate" state takes charge of managing the public property and state property, it is not permitted for the Khalifah to grant the ownership of the public property to any private party, whether an individual or group, as it is a property for all Muslims. Revenues are for the public, looking after its affairs and securing its interests, and not for the state. This applies to all the abundant wealth of public property, whether energy, such as petroleum, gas, electricity or replenishable minerals, such as copper and steel, or water, such as seas, rivers and dams, or pastures and forests. Indeed, the entire Ummah is known to possess the lion's share of the world's energy and mineral resources, but without Islam's economic system, the Muslims are drowned in poverty and the Ummah carries no weight in world affairs, even when compared to states that possess a small fraction of her material wealth.
Sectarian Violence is Outcome of Following American Policy
Sixty people were killed and over four dozen wounded when a powerful bomb went off at a Shikarpur Imambargah minutes before Friday prayers, on 30 January 2015, officials and witnesses said. Sindh Health Minister Jam Mehtab Dahar told Dawn that "close to 60" people were killed. While the Sindh government dec¬lared a ‘day of mourning', Shia organisations - Majlis Wahdat-i-Musli¬meen, Jaffria Alliance and Shia Ulema Council - gave a province-wide strike call for Saturday. The strike call was backed by many parties. Protests erupted all over Karachi as angry youths blocked main roads in every district in protest over the carnage. A truck was also torched on Sharea Faisal.
The continuous wave of sectarian violence has been ignited because of Pakistani government's slavish foreign policy and its support for the US occupation of Afghanistan. Facing defeat at the hands of Muslims in Afghanistan and their brothers from Pakistan's FATA region, and weakened by a grave economic crisis at home, America wants to weaken the resistance against its presence in the region. To achieve this objective American intelligence agencies are orchestrating a wave of bomb blasts and false flag attacks in urban Pakistan to divide the Muslims and make them fight amongst themselves and to discredit the resistance movement in the eyes of the Pakistani public. Part of America's mischief is to ignite a war of fitna between Pakistani military and the militants by using sectarian violence where groups fighting the Americans in Afghanistan are presented as sectarian groups who want to kill Shia Muslims across Pakistan. This is the same policy which was employed by America in Iraq where it incited sectarian division amongst Muslims to weaken and divide the resistance and ignite a war between Muslims thus consolidating its grip over Iraq.
In slavish obedience to the Americans, the current regime and treacherous Muslim rulers fan sectarian hatred amongst Muslims to strengthen their unnatural rule over the masses. Encouraged by their American masters it was the Pakistani regime under General Zia ul Haq which, fearing the desire for the implementation of Islam in the region and Pakistan, encouraged the formation of sectarian groups in Pakistan to discourage this tendency. Even today the Pakistani regime incites sectarian hatred amongst Muslims to justify its participation in America's War on Islam. The regime and its mouthpieces also incite sectarian hatred amongst Muslims to counter and oppose the growing demand of implementation of Shariah in Pakistan and to advocate a secular civil democratic model of governance for Pakistan. Moreover through different education curricula for different schools of thought, the Pakistani state tries to preserve the divisions amongst the Muslims of Pakistan.
