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• Russian President Putin calls 1915 Armenian Killings ‘Genocide'

• Netanyahu's Independence Day Message Praises Troops' ‘Fighting Spirit' in Gaza

• Tajikistan Bans Hajj Pilgrimage for Citizens Younger Than 35

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Russian president Putin calls 1915 Armenian killings ‘genocide'

According to the report, in a statement released on the Kremlin's website on the occasion of event in Moscow called "A World without Genocide," the Russian leader called the 1915 events a "mournful date, related to one of the most horrendous and dramatic events in human history, the genocide of the Armenian people."

Putin said Russia sees the mass killings of Armenians as its own pain and sorrow and said Russians bow their heads before the memory of all victims of the tragedy after 100 years.

He underlined that mass elimination of people because of their ethnic group has no justification and vowed that his country will not change its objective and consistent stance towards the 1915 events.

"The international community has a duty to do everything possible to ensure that such atrocities never happen anywhere again. Future generations of Armenians and other peoples in that region must live in a world of harmony and never have to know the horrors that come from the incitement of religious enmity, aggressive nationalism and xenophobia," Putin stated.

President Putin is scheduled to travel to the Armenian capital of Yerevan to attend ceremonies marking the centennial of what Armenians claim is a genocide of Ottoman Armenians in eastern Anatolia during World War I. However, Putin's spokesperson Dimitri Peskov said Putin's visit to the Armenian capital of Yerevan to attend the April 24 ceremonies marking the centennial of the killings and forced deportations will not damage ties between Turkey and Russia.

The Armenian government and diaspora have been working for a greater recognition of the 1915 events as "genocide" due to the centennial of the events this year. The pope described the mass killings of Armenians under Ottoman rule at the end of World War I as "the first genocide of the 20th century," with his statement prompting Turkey to summon the Vatican's envoy and recall its own. The European Parliament also called on Turkey to recognize the killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire as "genocide." And in another recent blow, political parties in the Austrian parliament signed a declaration recognizing the massacre of the Armenians as "genocide."

Germany's parliament is set to adopt a motion using the word genocide on Friday. However, US President Barack Obama is not expected to use the word "genocide" in his traditional April 24 statement to commemorate the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians in 1915.

Turkey accepts that many Armenians died during the World War I years, but says the death toll offered by the Armenians, up to 1.5 million people, is inflated, and denies that the deaths resulted from an act of genocide. Ankara says Turks were also killed when Armenians took up arms in pursuit of an independent state in collaboration with Russian forces that were invading Eastern Anatolia at the time. Armenia, on the other hand, accuses the Ottoman authorities of the time of systematically massacring large numbers of Armenians, then deporting many more, including women, children, the elderly and the infirm, in terrible conditions on so-called death marches. [Source: Today's Zaman]
While Turkish politicians continue praising Russia, Soviet successors never compromise.

Netanyahu's Independence Day Message Praises Troops' ‘Fighting Spirit' in Gaza

In his Independence Day address, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the fighting spirit of troops in Gaza.
Netanyahu's praises came in the Hebrew-language version of a video released by his office at the start of Israel's 67th Independence Day, which this year fell on Thursday. The English-language version contains no such reference but celebrates the right of Jews living outside Israel to immigrate there, or make aliyah.

"Last summer, during Operation Protective Edge, we saw your fighting spirit, your camaraderie, your bravery," Netanyahu said in the introduction part of the Hebrew-language video, which Netanyahu began with a message addressed to members of the security forces. "You are the first element of Israel's security and its independence."

Israel has faced international criticism for its military operation last summer in Gaza against Hamas, which left more than 2,000 Palestinians dead, and has disputed claims by the Palestinians and others that it committed widespread war crimes.
"When we look at the countries around us, we see how exceptional Israel is - a vibrant democracy with equal rights to all its citizens," Netanyahu said. "Israel is at the forefront of the world's technology."

Unlike the Hebrew address, Netanyahu's English-language video also celebrates how Israel gives Jews "the right to make aliyah and be part of the modern State of Israel."

It further differs from the Hebrew-language version in that it says specifically that Arab-Israelis are "equal under the law."
Last month, Netanyahu urged voters to elect his party, Likud, because Arabs, he said, were showing up in great numbers to vote with help from left-wing groups. The statement spurred many Israeli politicians and opinion-shapers - as well as U.S. officials - to accuse Netanyahu of eroding democratic values, and he later apologized for the offense it caused. [Source: Jewish Journal]

((لَا يَأْلُونَكُمْ خَبَالًا وَدُّوا مَا عَنِتُّمْ قَدْ بَدَتِ الْبَغْضَاءُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَمَا تُخْفِي صُدُورُهُمْ أَكْبَرُ))

"They wish you would have hardship. Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater." [TMQ: 3:118]

Tajikistan Bans Hajj Pilgrimage for Citizens Younger than 35

Tajikistan has banned the hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, for citizens younger than 35 years old.
Many in the Central Asian country believe the ban is an attempt to prevent young Tajiks from developing radical ideas and joining extremist groups such as Islamic State (IS).

It comes a month after President Emomali Rahmon called for a long-term development "concept" based on secularism.
The government's Committee for Religious and Cultural Issues announced the hajj restriction on April 13.
The committee said it is intended to give older Muslims a greater opportunity to undertake the hajj, as Saudi Arabia limits the number of pilgrims from each country annually.

Rahmon's government has repeatedly called for the strengthening of secular principles in the mostly Muslim country of 8.5 million.
Tajikistan has banned head scarves for schoolgirls, barred minors from mosques, and forced thousands of students to return home from Islamic schools abroad in recent months amid reports that many Tajiks have joined militant groups fighting in Iraq and Syria.
Also in recent months, dozens of Tajiks have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for links with banned Islamic groups, such as Hizb ut Tahrir, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and Jamaat Ansarullah.

The trials were held amid increased pressure on the only officially registered Islamic party in Central Asia -- the Islamic Renaissance Party, which was banished from parliament in a March 1 election marred by fraud allegations.
Last month, imams at several mosques across Tajikistan have urged Muslims to support the closure of the party, calling for a referendum to dissolve it.

In December, Rahmon, who has been running the country with an iron fist since 1992, publicly accepted that young Tajiks had been joining Islamic militants in the Middle East and described the IS group as a "modern plague" that posed a "threat to global security."
Rahmon added then that hundreds of Tajiks fighting alongside IS militants "bring instability to society at home as well" as they recruit more young Tajiks for extremist groups in Syria and Iraq.

In February, Tajikistan's newly appointed prosecutor-general, Yusuf Rahmonov, said that a special center tasked with investigating cases of recruitment to banned Islamic groups would begin operating soon.

In March, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said Moscow planned to bolster Russia's military bases in Tajikistan and neighboring Kyrgyzstan due to increased activity of IS "units" in Central Asia.

A recent report from the International Crisis Group estimated that 2,000 to 4,000 people from Central Asia have gone to Syria during the last three years to join Islamist militants. [Source: Radio Free Europe]
Agent rulers will always be "more royalist than the king". They can do anything to assure their reign and satisfy their masters.

Human Rights Watch organisation in a report published on Wednesday, 22/04/2015 spoke of the suffering of the Muslims from the Fulani (Fellata) tribes in Central Africa; of kidnapping and frequent rape and killing by the Ante Balaka, the anti-Islamic gangs in Central Africa. The United Nations forces announced on Sunday the release of 21 of the Fulani Muslims who were held by the Ante Balaka since 2014.

Late in the night of 22 April 2015, the thugs of the regime seized the widely known and respected Saad Jagranvi, the Chairman of Hizb ut Tahrir's Central Contact Committee in the Wilayah of Pakistan. It is the latest black deed in a long list of black deeds against Hizb ut Tahrir. The regime has arrested members of Hizb ut Tahrir throughout Pakistan and Naveed Butt, Hizb ut Tahrir's Official Spokesman in Pakistan, will now enter his fourth year of abduction on 11 May 2015.

Hizb ut Tahrir has today, 23 April 2015, launched a campaign exposing America's campaign to suppress Islam in Pakistan, which the regime insists on calling "National Action Plan." In its leaflet issued on 23 April 2015, Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan stated,

"The core concepts of the "National Action Plan" are the direct output of a major American initiative, the Pakistan-US Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism and Law Enforcement (JWG-CTLE). This body has a profound effect on Pakistan because the US Department of State, US Department of Justice and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), all contribute to it. Since the JWG-CTLE was announced in February 2002 by the US State Department, it has guided America's agents regarding suppressing the call for Islam, Jihad and Khilafah "Caliphate", from the "Enlightened Moderation" of the Musharraf-Aziz regime to the current regime's "National Action Plan."

Through the "National Action Plan" and other means, America seeks to end the Muslims' deep attachment to Islam, which was developed over centuries of adherence to Islam, fighting in its cause and ruling by it. It is the power of Islam that was the key to the establishment of Pakistan in the first place, forcing a former leading global state, Britain, to end its military occupation of the Indian Subcontinent, never daring to return again. It is the power of Islam that forced another superpower, Soviet Russia, to end its occupation of Afghanistan, in such a severe state of military and economic exhaustion that it led to its eventual and complete collapse. However, now that America has herself occupied the region, the power of Islam is directed against her, and will be defeated by the permission of Allah the Strong the Aziz as what had happened to the communists from before.

Suppressing Islam in Pakistan is now a matter of survival for the American presence and interests in the region. Using the "National Action Plan" amongst other means, America has mobilized her agents to denounce Jihad as "terrorism" and persecute the sincere mujahideen fighting the American occupation of Afghanistan, using the arrests of miscreants performing sectarian and ethnic violence as a cover to hide her main purpose. America's agents also clamp down on Islamic expression in the media, social media and the political medium, denouncing it as "hate speech", "radicalism" and "Islamism," whilst seizing thousands of sincere Ulema and politicians who call for Jihad against America's occupation of Afghanistan and the return of the Khilafah "Caliphate" to Pakistan."

And Hizb ut Tahrir called directly to the armed forces with the following call:

"O Officers of Pakistan's Armed Forces!

The current rulers are weak before our enemies, never daring to do what must be done, whether in Palestine, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria or even within Pakistan. Yet, they are mighty before the Muslims, widening their chests and striking at all that we hold of Islam, for the sake of their foreign masters. Clearly they are not of us and we are not of them. How, then, can you tolerate their rule any more, when it is upon your strength and support that they depend for survival? How do you accept that these traitors use your power in support of Kufr, its people and its man-made system of Democracy? How do you still allow these agents to suppress Islam and its people, denying them their right to live by Islam as a Khilafah "Caliphate" state?

It is upon you now to grant the Nussrah to Hizb ut Tahrir, under the leadership of the eminent politician and profound jurist, Sheikh Ata Bin Khalil Abu Al-Rashtah, for the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate". Only then will the plots of these criminal rulers be obliterated by the truth of Islam. Allah (swt) said,

((لِيُحِقَّ الْحَقَّ وَيُبْطِلَ الْبَاطِلَ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُجْرِمُونَ))

"That He might cause the truth to triumph and bring falsehood to nothing, even though the criminals hate it." [Surah al-Anfaal 8:8]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan

Message from Saad Jagranvi just days before seizure by Raheel-Nawaz Regime