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• King Salman Shores up Pro-US team

• Amnesty Exposes Syria Government

• Jewish Entity Targeted Civilians

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King Salman Shores up Pro-US team

King Salman made a number of changes, which secured his lineage and son within the Kingdom for the next few decades. The Saudi monarch's overhaul of the nation's aging leadership moves a younger generation of royals into positions of power. King Salman is the last of the Suderi brothers, the brothers from Ibn Saud's marriages to Hassa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi. Since Ibn Saud the monarchy has remained within this clan, but with King Salman, the last of the brothers (Ahmed bin abdul Aziz, the 7th brother, was removed from succession). King Salman replaced his younger half-brother, Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, as crown prince. He appointed his nephew, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who now becomes his new heir apparent and made his son, 29 year old Prince Mohammed bin Salman, deputy crown prince, making him second in line to the throne. This will effectively bring to an end the second generation of kings for the Suderi clan and begin the third generation, where there are thousands of princes. All of the previous Kings either served as defence minsters or its parallel institution the National Guard. The National Guard is trained by Britain and its parallel institution the defense ministry is very close to the US, it is trained by the US and most of its equipment is from the US. What King Salman has done is shore up the future of the country with pro-US line of succession with his son and him surrounding the crown prince, who has spent most of his life as the interior minister

Amnesty Exposes Syrian Government

A new report from Amnesty International says Civilians in Syria's second largest city of Aleppo are suffering unthinkable atrocities. It alleges war crimes are committed on a daily basis. At least 10 people, including four children and teacher, were killed on Sunday 3 May when a barrel bomb hit a nursery school in the Saif al-Dawla district. Amnesty's report said that from January 2014 to March 2015, government aircraft launched continual attacks using barrel bombs - oil barrels, fuel tanks or gas cylinders packed with explosives, fuel, and metal fragments - on rebel-held areas of Aleppo. Their targets included at least 14 public markets, 12 transportation hubs, 23 mosques, 17 hospitals and medical centres, and 3 schools. "I saw children without heads, body parts everywhere. It was how I imagine hell to be," a local factory worker said describing the aftermath of an attack on al-Fardous district in 2014. Amnesty said evidence suggested the air campaign in Aleppo had "deliberately targeted civilians and civilian objects," and noted that it was a war crime to intentionally make those not directly participating in hostilities the target of attacks. "Such a systematic attack on the civilian population, when carried out as part of government policy as appears to have been the case in Aleppo, would also constitute a crime against humanity," it added. Philip Luther, Director of Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa programme said, "Today, the international community has turned its back on Aleppo's civilians in a cold-hearted display of indifference to an escalating human tragedy."

Jewish Entity Targeted Civilians

The release of a new report by "Israeli" veterans NGO Breaking the Silence, proves that the Jewish entity repeatedly and deliberately targeted civilians during its wars in the Gaza Strip. The report featured testimony from more than 60 "Israeli" soldiers who confirmed that not only did they deliberately target civilians during the most recent invasion, but that they were explicitly ordered to do so. "Whoever you see there, you kill," is how one soldier summed up the orders. He said soldiers were told the civilians "knew they're not supposed to be there" and therefore they were to kill anyone who wasn't an "Israeli" soldier on sight. Soldiers went on to say that traditional admonishments to use "minimum force" were thrown out the window in the war, and that civilian homes were deliberately attacked "without any clear operational justification," sometimes just because the military wanted to demonstrate their military control over the neighborhoods. The report concluded that the Jewish entity's military had suffered from a "broad ethical failure" during the war, and one that extended from the top of the chain of command. During the month-long Jewish entity's invasion, 2,189 Palestinians were killed. The overwhelming majority, 1,486, were civilians, including many ordered out of their neighborhoods and into UN facilities, which were then deliberately attacked.

News:

Riyadh, Islamabad - Agencies: King Salman bin Abdul Aziz met Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his delegation yesterday, 23 April 2015, in the al-Ouja Palace in Riyadh to discuss developments in the Yemen crisis and relations between the two countries. Accompanying Sharif in this visit were Army Chief Raheel Sharif, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sirtaj Aizaz and his Special Assistant Tariq Fatemi. The Pakistan Foreign Ministry yesterday affirmed that the visit of the Prime Minister to Riyadh emphasises Islamabad's support for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its striving for a political solution to Yemen.

Comment:

It is known that actual power in Pakistan resides with the army. The politicians are but the face of the regime. The proof of this are the policies of the regime and the issues it adopts, manages and spends its resources on. The regime has adopted a hostile stance towards India for decades, the objective of which is to put pressure on it to give in to serve American interests in the region and to force it to move from the British to the American camp. Similarly, the regime also armed itself with nuclear weapons under the watch of the "international community", led by America. This armament was not to liberate Kashmir or Palestine, nor was it to support the Muslims in Afghanistan or Burma. Rather, it was so that Pakistan is able to remain competitive with India strategically to be able to pressurise it. The regime did not use the nuclear weapons where they should have been, which indicates that they are used only to serve American interests in the region and nothing else, for America is the  sole benefactor from them.

The same is true of its military force in Afghanistan, which was first used to remove the Soviet Union from the region that America could take its place, and was then used to establish the American occupation of it. These two examples alone - and there are many others - show that the regime in Pakistan (the military leadership) does not carry out military action except when they serve American interests. Sadly, not one honourable instance exists in the record of this force. All its abilities have been used to serve America and rescue its coward troops, a clear example of which was the rescuing of American Marines from the hands of mujahideen in Somalia by a Pakistani military force in 1993 as General Musharraf confirmed in his book "In the Line of Fire" (p.76, 2006) saying "When U.S. troops were trapped in the thickly populated Madina Bazaar area of Mogadishu, it was the Seventh Frontier Force Regiment of the Pakistan Army that reached out and extricated them.".

Pakistan's role in Yemen must be understood in this context. Wherever American interests lie, its agents are there serving it and sacrificing Muslim blood and resources for it. In Yemen, the role of the Pakistani regime - whose army is known for its ability, high-level training and nuclear weapons - is to give the impression that it will use this ability against the British and their agents, whom America is seeking to remove or to force to a political deal in which the agents of America take the larger share. By this, she seeks to take the lion's share of influence in Yemen and its huge resources, and to dominate it strategic advantages courtesy of its position on vital waterways.

This awareness about the treacherous role played by the Pakistani regime only exists with Hizb ut Tahrir and its members like Saad Jagranvi who exerted all efforts in exposing this to the Ummah. The regime's fear of being thus exposed, particularly from a working and respected personality from a noble family known for its taqwa and iman, who left no influential person, sincere politician or respected scholar except that he visited them and made them aware of the regime's treachery...the regime's fear of this from Saad and his brothers from the Shabab of Hizb is what pushed it to seize him and his brother.

The state of the regime in Pakistan is like that of other regimes in the Muslim world. Their people await their removal and the Khilafah "Caliphate" being established in their place. Hence, they leave no effort in harassing the sincere of this Ummah. They sense that they are too weak to target their people by themselves, so they have now started forming joint forces to protect themselves from their people. However, this is a warning for the nearness of their end inshaaAllah.

((إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَالِغُ أَمْرِهِ قَدْ جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدْرًا))

"Indeed, Allah fulfils his purpose. He has made for every thing an appointed time."

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Bilal al-Muhajir from Pakistan