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North Waziristan Operations is a Treachery against Pakistan's Armed Forces

During the blessed month of Ramadan in which Muslims have celebrated victories over their enemies for over fourteen centuries, the Raheel-Nawaz regime is conducting military operations in North Waziristan. However, rather than being a cause for celebration, the North Waziristan military operations are a grave treachery against Pakistan's armed forces aimed at destroying their ability to challenge the malignant American plan for the region.

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News & Comment Murdered Because of Islamic Attire

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The Observer Newspaper reported on 28th June 2014 that ‘more than half of Islamophobic attacks in Britain are committed against women, who are typically targeted because they are wearing clothing associated with Islam'. It goes on to say 1 in 6 victims choose not to report incidents to the authorities due to lack of trust. The figures of attacks against Muslims comes days after the brutal murder of Saudi Arabian student, Nahid Almanea who was stabbed to death in Essex. Although initially not stated, detectives now say she may have been targeted due to her Islamic attire.

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The attack on Nahid Almanea has seen many speaking out on social media that the mainstream media plays down any attack against Muslims and is very irresponsible at highlighting any negative action of Muslims whether in the name of Islam or not thereby creating strong anti-Islamic ideas about Muslims amongst the general masses.

Islamaphobia is the fear of Muslims and Islam; and just as racism and xenophobia created ideas and negative opinions about ‘the other'; the media and key politicians are responsible for the way Islam is viewed. British media reporting of ‘sexual grooming', ‘barbaric Shariah law', ‘the oppressive buraq', and most recently secret selling of halal food and the alleged takeover of Islamists in British schools would have the unsuspecting Brit feeling like s/he is being taken over by aliens!

For communities to live and co-exist in a harmonious manner, the State has the ultimate responsibility to use media, education and laws to protect minorities. In the capitalist system divide and rule is a policy that works well for international political gains and racism and phobia of others is another element of this policy. The West is fearful of Islam, not the dress of the Muslim woman, but what this represents, an adherence to laws, values and ideas that are not in line with the predominant views of the society. It works well to present Islam in a negative light as the resurgence of Islam in the Muslim world is a true threat that cannot be avoided. Just as the Quraysh tried to spread false propaganda about RasulAllah (saw) and Islam in the past, today we witness similar attempts. There are many policies in place trying to make Muslims in the West assimilate and integrate in a very forceful manner and Muslims are striving to stay steadfast in the face of this. In the meantime, we will witness attacks, verbal and physical, as a direct reaction to the way the masses view Islam and Muslims through the primary source, the media. Many victims will not tell the authorities as they do not feel any recourse and due to lack of trust. This all makes for a very uneasy relationship.

As Muslims living in these testing times, it is reassuring to see that in the Seerah of RasulAllah (saw), the propaganda was not ultimately successful when the Muslims continued in their struggle and held onto Islam, no matter what happened. Allah (swt) changed their situation and Islam was victorious. Then the whole world witnessed the beauty of the Islamic system in assimilating minorities as the Islamic State expanded.

Muslims are regulated in how they deal with minorities by the Shariah and Islam opened up lands with inhabitants of all kinds of belief and race. Viewing people only from the human point of view, Islam dealt with their problems and needs. Allah (swt) says:

((ولَا يَجْرِمَنَّكُمْ شَنَآنُ قَوْمٍ عَلَىٰ أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوا ۚ اعْدِلُوا هُوَ أَقْرَبُ لِلتَّقْوَىٰ ۖ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّـهَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّـهَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ))

"And let not the enmity and hatred of others make you avoid justice. Be just: that is nearer to piety and fear Allah. Verily Allah is Well Acquainted with what you do" [Surah al Maida: 8]

A non-Muslim citizen of the state is termed a dhimmi, "One whose responsibility is taken" so s/he has protection of life and property to the extent that the Prophet (saw) said,

«أَلَا مَنْ ظَلَمَ مُعَاهِدًا أَوِ انْتَقَصَهُ أَوْ كَلَّفَهُ فَوْقَ طَاقَتِهِ أَوْ أَخَذَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا بِغَيْرِ طِيبِ نَفْسٍ فَأَنَا حَجِيجُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ»

"If anyone wrongs a man with whom a covenant has been made, or curtails any right of his, or imposes on him more than he can bear, or takes anything from him without his ready agreement, I shall be his adversary on the Day of Resurrection." (Sunan Abu Dawud)

Only under the Khilafah "Caliphate" State will we witness the easy co-existence of Muslims and non-Muslims, where laws, media and mass opinions will be synchronized and justice felt for those who are harmed in any way.

 

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Nazia Rehman - Pakistan

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News & Comment Malala to Receive Liberty Medal

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PHILADELPHIA: Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot by the Taliban because she advocated education for girls, has won the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Yousafzai was just 15 when she was shot in the head while returning from school in Mingora, Pakistan, in October 2012 since arguing that girls should be allowed to pursue an education, which was hindered under the Talibaan.
"It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal," Yousafzai, now 17, said Sunday.

"I accept this award on behalf of all the children around the world who are struggling to get an education."
After surviving the attack, Yousafzai continued to be an outspoken advocate on education, prompting Gordon Brown, the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education, to petition the agency to recommit to a goal of universal primary education for children around the world. The petition gained more than 3 million signatures and helped lead Pakistan to pass a Right to Education Bill, a first in that country.

"Malala's courageous fight for equality and liberty from tyranny is evidence that a passionate, committed leader, regardless of age, has the power to ignite a movement for reform," said Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the chairman of the National Constitution Center.

The medal has been awarded annually since 1989, when Polish Solidarity founder Lech Walesa received it first. Since then, recipients have included boxer Mohammad Ali, former US President Jimmy Carter, and, last year, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Yousafzai will receive the award at a ceremony at the center on Oct. 21. [Source: Dawn 30/06/14]

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Malala's story has also been used to further fuel and re-enforce the age-old myth that Islam and Islamic rule oppresses women and deprives them of their rights and that they are in need of Western-style liberation. It is a narrative that has been employed historically and over decades, continuing into modern times to maintain Western secular hegemony over the region by fighting the resurgence of Islam internationally in order to prevent the establishment of an Islamic system in the Muslim world that would threaten Western political and economic interests.

However, it is not Islam but Western colonial foreign policy that has stripped women and girls in Pakistan and many other Muslim countries of a valuable education. The ‘War on Terror' and occupation of Afghanistan has created a constant climate of insecurity and instability in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the region, marked with frequent drone attacks and bombs that have killed thousands over the years, including countless women, girls, and children. A UN Committee on the Rights of Children report stated that hundreds of children are reported to have died, "as a result of attacks and air strikes by the US military forces in Afghanistan" between 2008 and 2012, due to the use of "indiscriminate force".

Where are the rights of these children? Clearly their deaths are acceptable collateral damage to such colonial governments for the sake of securing their interests in the region. Such occupation, war and instability have also generated a lawless environment riddled with crime, abductions, and rape. All this has led to many parents preventing their daughters from travelling far from their homes, including to school. Furthermore, how can states plagued with instability, destruction, and insecurity ever provide a good quality of education to their citizens? After more than 10 years of occupation, almost 9 out of 10 women in Afghanistan remain illiterate.

Hence, it is the destructive Western colonial foreign policy that has not only robbed girls of an education, but robbed them of their lives and dignity, and stands as one of the main obstacles to their effective schooling.

 

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Um Mohammed

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Regarding what has been Declared by ISIS about the Establishment of the Khilafah

1. Any organization that seeks to announce the Khilafah "Caliphate" in an area is obligated to follow the Methodology of the Prophet (saw) in it, and from it is that this organization should have the obvious visible authority on the place, where it can maintain security internally and externally, and that this area should have the components of a state in the area where the Khilafah "Caliphate" is announced....

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Australia: Ramadan - A blessed month for revival

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The month of Ramadan is a time of worship, reflection, self control and forgiveness. It is also one of victory and rushing to implement all of Allah's commands with incredible reward for those who grasp this blessed month.

Talk 1: The virtues and blessings of the month of Ramadan | Mohammed Trad

Time: 1:49

 

Talk 2: Linking the actions of today to the pious predecessors | Uthman Badar

Time: 27:26

 

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Australia: Brandis meeting imams re Syria | Uthman Badar interview (ABC News Radio)

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Uthman Badar, media rep of Hizb ut Tahrir / Australia, talks to Tracey Holmes (ABC News Radio) about Attorney General George Brandis' meeting today (02/07/2014) with imams regarding an intensifying of the Australian Government's crackdown on Muslims going to and returning from Syria.

Connect with Uthman on Facebook (http://on.fb.me/Agq3zk) and/or Twitter (http://bit.ly/HzGtyk).

 

 

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Ten Reasons why the War on Terror is America’s War and is against Pakistan’s interests

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1- The origin of this War is the US occupation of Afghanistan, which resulted in the Pashtun tribes across the Pak-Afghan border, resisting the US occupation in line with their love for Jihad against the foreign Kaffir aggression.

2- The US is financing this War through the Coalition Support Fund as a bribery for the traitors in the regime to burn Pakistan's armed forces as fuel in America's crusade.

3- The US aims to build military bases in Afghanistan and wants the Kabul government to sign a bilateral security pact which ensures this presence. The US wants to crush the resistance to permanent US military presence in Afghanistan. This resistance is coming from the tribes along Pak-Afghan border.

4- America has created divisions between the Pakistan Army and the Pashtun tribes through its covert attacks on the armed forces in civilians to malign the pure Jihad against the occupation. Historically, both joined hands to defeat the Soviet Union. The fight between Muslims of tribal areas and Pakistan Army has weakened Pakistan Army's ability to secure Pakistan and its wider region from harm.

5- To support the US War on Terror the civilian and military leadership of Pakistan abandoned the support for Jihad in Kashmir, which significantly weakened the Kashmir Cause.

6- The War on Terror has weakened Pakistan against India. India has felt relief on the Kashmir front, as Pakistan's rulers have moved troops from the Indian border to the Afghan border, further weakening Pakistan's stance against India.

7- The War on Terror has caused more than $100 billion loss to Pakistan's economy. This is more than the US civilian and military aid to the country.

8- Allah (swt) has forbidden the Muslims from making alliance with the Kuffar. The Raheel-Nawaz regime's alliance with the US is against the commands of Allah (swt) and such an alliance must be ended immediately. Allah (swt) said: ((إِنَّمَا يَنْهَـكُمُ اللَّهُ عَنِ الَّذِينَ قَـتَلُوكُمْ فِى الدِّينِ وَأَخْرَجُوكُم مِّن دِيَـرِكُمْ وَظَـهَرُواْ عَلَى إِخْرَجِكُمْ أَن تَوَلَّوْهُمْ وَمَن يَتَوَلَّهُمْ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ الظَّـلِمُون)) "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)." [Surah Al Mumtahinah 60:9]

9- Pakistan's participation in the War on Terror has resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians and armed forces personnel. It is forbidden for Muslims to fight and kill each other. Allah (swt) said, ((وَمَنْ يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا)) "And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his Recompense is Hell to abide therein, and the Wrath and the Curse of Allah are upon him, and a great punishment is prepared for Him." [Surah An-Nisa 4:93].

10- The War on Terror has created divisions within the Muslims of Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as Muslims within Pakistan. Allah (swt) has forbidden division amongst Muslims and commanded unity on the basis of Islam. Allah (swt) revealed, ((وَاعْتَصِمُواْ بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعاً وَلاَ تَفَرَّقُواْ وَاذْكُرُواْ نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنتُم أَعْدَآءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَاناً وَكُنتُمْ عَلَى شَفَا حُفْرَةٍ مِّنَ النَّارِ فَأَنقَذَكُمْ مِّنْهَا)) "And hold fast all of you to the Rope of Allah and do not be divided. And remember the favour that Allah has bestowed upon you, for you used to be enemies to each other but Allah joined your hearts together, so that you became brothers in Islam by His Favour. And you were on the pit of a fire and He saved you from it." [Surah Aali Imran 3:103]

 

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Engineer Moez Mobeen, Islamabad, Pakistan

 

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Pakistan Headlines 02/07/2014

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Regime's Support for America's Crusade Brings Losses for Pakistan

Pakistan Army personnel fired warning shots, whilst trying to break up a protest by internally displaced persons from the North Waziristan tribal region outside a World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution point in Bannu on Tuesday June 24, 2014. The offensive has seen the northwestern tribal area of North Waziristan hit by more than a week of shelling and air raids, and more than 450,000 and up to 600,000 people have fled ahead of an impending ground assault, with many going to the nearby town of Bannu. These operations are the results of American demands from 2004 to strike at the hardy fighters of North Waziristan who have prevented the American occupation of Afghanistan from settling.

Rather than the Pakistan Armed Forces leading the Muslims of the tribal regions and beyond against the crusader presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the regime has chosen to burn the armed forces and the people of the tribal regions as fuel to secure the American presence. The regime favors those who occupy our lands, even though Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw) have ordered us to fight the Kafir aggressors and expel them from where we have been expelled. Allah (swt) ordered. ((إِنَّمَا يَنْهَاكُمْ اللَّهُ عَنْ الَّذِينَ قَاتَلُوكُمْ فِي الدِّينِ وَأَخْرَجُوكُمْ مِنْ دِيَارِكُمْ وَظَاهَرُوا عَلَى إِخْرَاجِكُمْ أَنْ تَوَلَّوْهُمْ وَمَنْ يَتَوَلَّهُمْ فَأُوْلَئِكَ هُمْ الظَّالِمُونَ)) "It is only as regards those who fought against you on account of Deen, and have driven you out of your homes, and helped to drive you out, that Allah forbids you to befriend them, then such are the Zalimoon" [Surah Al-Mumtahinah 60: 9] Our rulers seek to ensure we remain divided and weak, even though Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw) have ordered us to be one people against our actual enemies. Allah (swt) revealed,((وَاعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلاَ تَفَرَّقُوا وَاذْكُرُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنْتُمْ أَعْدَاءً فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُمْ بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَانًا وَكُنْتُمْ عَلَى شَفَا حُفْرَةٍ مِنْ النَّارِ فَأَنْقَذَكُمْ مِنْهَا)) "And hold fast all of you to the Rope of Allah and do not be divided. And remember the favour that Allah has bestowed upon you, for you used to be enemies to each other but Allah joined your hearts together, so that you became brothers in Islam by His Favour. And you were on the pit of a fire and He saved you from it." [Surah Aali Imran 3:103]

 

Regime is Blind to the Bad of the US Presence and the Good of its Removal

Speaking at a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday 25 June, whilst presenting "Strategic Vision of Pakistan's Foreign Policy," the Prime Minister's Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, declared, "There is no distinction between the good Taliban and bad Taliban and the military operation was being conducted across the board."

At a time when Pakistan is being rocked by military operations that have led to the displacement of over half a million refugees and the spilling of the pure blood of its armed forces and security personnel, the regime has revealed that it has blinded itself to the core of the issue. Rather than being determined by Islam, good and bad is determined by American policy objectives. Consider that when Soviet Russia invaded, it was the Haqqani network and Quetta Shura that were the leading fighters against the occupation. At that time America regarded the fighters as "good" because they were uprooting its competing superpowers and so did its agents embedded in Pakistan's leadership. However, when America itself invaded and occupied, naturally America views that this fierce resistance is bad and so its agents in Pakistan's leadership repeat the same like parrots.

As for the evil attacks against our armed forces and civilians, America and its agents condemn them as being bad but between the lines they all regard them as good. This is because it is these attacks that have turned opinion against the sincere resistance to American occupation. Moreover, Americans themselves organize and mastermind these attacks through their Raymond Davis network of intelligence and private military. It is these false flag attacks, evil attacks in the name of the enemy, that have been made to turn public opinion against the Jihad to end American occupation. Thus, America sees these attacks as "good" and a "silver lining" because they secure her presence within both Pakistan and Afghanistan, whilst turning Muslim against Muslim in a destructive war of Fitna. On 12 October 2012, Victoria Nuland, the US State Department's spokesperson, said, "So obviously, the degree to which the Pakistani people turn against them help their government to go after them. That would be, perhaps, a silver lining from this horrible tragedy." And on 1 December 2009, US President Obama declared, "There have been those who have said fighting against extremism is not their fight... as innocents have been killed from Karachi to Islamabad, it has become clear that it is the Pakistani people who are the most endangered by extremism."

It is the Raheel-Nawaz regime that turns good to bad and bad to good, turning our world upside down on our heads. By doing so, these traitors not only bow to America, never opposing her, they strengthen her hand, increasing her ability to attack the Muslim blood and honor. Until today, they provide America bases and the essential intelligence so that American drones can collapse the houses of Muslims upon their heads. These traitors secure America's private military organizations, the successors of the notorious Blackwater, within sensitive military cantonments and urban residential areas, so that they can organize a campaign of bombings and assassinations, slaughtering thousands of Muslim civilians and military personnel, in order to promote America's war by blaming the tribal Muslims. And even when these murderous assassins are caught red handed, they are hastily freed! This traitorous regime secures the US embassy and consulates, which are America's bases for mischief and interference throughout the world, and have given approval for the world's second biggest US embassy in Islamabad, a huge fortress in all but name. The regime before America, seeking guidance on what is good and bad, in a war of Fitna that has cost tens of thousands of Muslim lives and billions of dollars of losses to the economy.

Thus the Raheel-Nawaz regime has distanced us away from the liberation of the Muslim lands, an obligation on us from our Lord, and have directed our armed forces instead to kill our brothers in the tribal areas, a matter forbidden to us. They make the bad into good and the good into bad, earning the wrath of Allah (swt). It is upon our armed forces to be now to be as the good Ansar (ra) were in the time of RasulAllah (saw) and deliver a death blow to the bad plans and plots of the Kuffar by granting the Nussrah (Material Support) for the rule by Islam in our Muslim Lands, over our dignified Muslim people. It is only under a righteous Khaleefah, leading our armed forces in a good fight against the enemy, that we will taste the honor we deserve and strive for the rewards that we seek.((يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آَمَنُوا هَلْ أَدُلُّكُمْ عَلَى تِجَارَةٍ تُنْجِيكُمْ مِنْ عَذَابٍ أَلِيمٍ * تُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَتُجَاهِدُونَ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ بِأَمْوَالِكُمْ وَأَنْفُسِكُمْ ذَلِكُمْ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ * يَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَيُدْخِلْكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ تَجْرِي مِنْ تَحْتِهَا الْأَنْهَارُ وَمَسَاكِنَ طَيِّبَةً فِي جَنَّاتِ عَدْنٍ ذَلِكَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ)) "O you who believe, shall I tell you about a trade that saves you from a painful punishment? That you believe in Allah and His Messenger, and carry out Jihad in His way with your wealth and your lives. That is much better for you, if you but know. (If you do this,) He will forgive your sins, and will admit you to gardens beneath which rivers flow, and to pleasant dwellings in gardens of eternity. That is the great achievement!" [al-Saff: 10-12]

 

Regime's Pittance of Grants is Salt in the Wounds of the Refugees

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced on Friday 29 June 2014 an increase in cash grant for families displaced from North Waziristan to Rs 40,000 for Ramazan. This is salt in the wounds of the honorable Muslims of North Waziristan, who have lost their homes and means of livelihood as a consequence of the Raheel-Nawaz regime's blind slavery to America.

The refugee crisis is the bitter fruit of the alliance with the foremost enemy of the Ummah, America. When traitors in Pakistan's leadership sided with America in 1980s to contain the advance of the Soviet Union, Pakistan ended up with three million Afghan refugees who struggle daily to eke out a living, many unable to return. Now traitors are working to secure the American occupation of Afghanistan from the fierce tribal resistance, Pakistan now has added millions of refugees, as a direct consequence of American instigated operations in Pakistan's tribal belt. Added to this refugee calamity are the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Pakistanis still reeling from Pakistan's earthquake in 2005 and the country's worst floods in 2010. After the initial attention of the regime and its crocodile tears end, all these people will be simply abandoned by the regime, as assets and money were diverted to fight militants at America's behest.

In siding with America, traitors in the military and political leadership have lost Pakistan's strategic depth in Afghanistan, gravely undermined Pakistan's stance on Kashmir, compromised the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, plunged the economy of the country into an abyss of debt, strengthened Pakistan's arch enemy India and have displaced millions of Pakistani citizens. These traitors have turned a country with huge potential into a pit of misery. Allah (swt), ((أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ بَدَّلُوا نِعْمَةَ اللَّهِ كُفْرًا وَأَحَلُّوا قَوْمَهُمْ دَارَ الْبَوَارِ)) "Have you not seen those who have changed the Blessings of Allah into disbelief and caused their people to dwell in an abode of destruction?" [Surah Ibraheem 28]. The only way to end this spiral of destruction, is to uproot the traitors, rip up alliance with America and establish the Khilafah "Caliphate".

 

Pakistan's Armed Forces is Deserving of a Righteous Khaleefah to Lead them in Battle Against the Hindu Mushrikeen and American Crusaders

Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has said that Pakistan Army is a battle-hardened force and fully prepared to fight against all threats. The army chief was speaking to troops on Saturday 29 June during a visit to Siachen Glacier. While appreciating the operational readiness and motivation, he said, "We will not hesitate from any sacrifice for the defence of the motherland". The Siachen glacier is the highest battleground on earth, where India and Pakistan have fought intermittently since April 13, 1984, during the India's malignant Operation Meghdoot. Its icy heights are soaked with the blood of many martyrs who willingly gave their lives for the sake of Allah (swt) in the continuous hostilities against the Hindu mushrikeen. It is a stark reminder that India is our real enemy. A fact that should be known well to General Raheel, whose uncle and elder brother were both martyred in their brave fight against India.

However, General Raheel has been instrumental in changing the focus of the Pakistan Army from the ever-hostile India, to protecting the American occupation in Afghanistan from the fierce tribal resistance led by North Waziristan. During his time as the Inspector General for Training and Evaluation, when he assisted the then Army Chief, General Kayani, he focused on unconventional training for the troops, weakening their ability to fight the conventional forces of India, so that they focus instead on America's enemy, the tribal resistance. In this capacity, Raheel was also key to changing the military doctrine, the Green Book in 2013, wrenching the army's focus from confronting the Hindu state, to counter-insurgency operations against tribal Muslims who have prevented the American occupation from settling. This treachery is perhaps why as a reward from Washington, he was elevated as Kayani's replacement over two more senior generals, Lieutenant General Haroon Aslam and the now Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Rashad Mahmood.

Until now, General Raheel serves America even though Pakistan's current instability is a direct outcome of American foreign policy, specifically the policies of low intensity conflict and covert, "black" operations. It is low intensity conflict which destroys internal stability, strains our capability, strangulates our potential and justifies repeated American interference to ask us to "do more." And it is the covert operations, such as "false flag" attacks in the name of the enemy against our armed forces by America's Raymond Davis network, which are an American ploy, practiced by its intelligence agencies all over the world from Latin America to South East Asia, to make sure that conflict continues by burning the country in the fires of insecurity.

Without doubt, just as our real external threat is India, our real internal threat is from the substantial American presence within Pakistan. It is this American presence which is the source of the intricate planning, huge funding and sophisticated arms supply that has allowed the targeting of military and civilian targets for so long. As long as these foreign assets exist on our soil, we will never see an end to this devastating war, even if we were to lose far more than we have already lost.

No doubt, Pakistan's armed forces, the seventh largest in the world, are a mighty force. But that potential will never be fulfilled unless the traitors within the military leadership are replaced by a righteous Khaleefah leading the fight against the enemies of this Ummah.

 

Raheel-Nawaz Regime Electricity "Gift" for Ramadhan is Like Throwing Scraps to a Beggar at his Own Banquet

Patting itself on the back as usual, the Raheel-Nawaz regime announced its plan to reduce electricity shortages during Ramadhan, when the fasting Muslims are sitting for many hours without electricity, whilst the summer temperature soar into their mid-forties, with hospitals full of cases of people collapsing through severe dehydration. The Ministry of Water and Power on Sunday 29 June announced that the government will increase the subsidy for electricity so that the Muslims can have electricity during Sahoor, Iftaar and Taraawih. For what will the Muslims of Pakistan be thankful during the month for this "generosity"? The government itself created the shortages by violating the Shariah law regarding public property, such as electricity, by privatizing it. This privatization 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. So the people are reduced by the regime to the status of beggars at their own banquet!

The severe electricity shortages occur because the private owners 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 over 20,000 MW installed capacity against a peak demand of 17,500 MW, less than half of that is produced, causing huge electricity shortages, twelve hours a day or even more, with people unable to cool themselves even by means of a fan in the scorching summer heat. And that is asides from these highly disruptive shortages destroying local industry.

Moreover, as part of privatization, the regime has already guaranteed profits on investment for private owners of power, by increasing the electricity charges many fold. It has also made sure that the private owners are paid from the revenues of the state, even when they are not generating electricity because of fuel shortages! Electricity has become so expensive that there is now a huge circular debt owed to the private owners of power. Last summer, in July 2013, the regime paid Rupees 270 billion to the private power producers, the IPPs. This enormous amount also alerts the people to just how much wealth there is in power, which they will not see a single Rupee of it. And this Ramadhan the debt mounted yet again.

These rulers are privatizing the Ummah's resources, even though Islam has declared that energy is a public property for the Muslims. RasulAllah (saw) said, «المسلمون شرکاء فی ثلاث الماء والكلأ والنار» "Muslims are partners (associates) in three things: in water, pastures and fire (energy)" [Abu Dawood.]. Thus under the Khilafah "Caliphate", with its Islamic constitution, the benefit of electricity will be for the public, with the state supervising the matter to ensure that. Moreover, all of the loans the government takes to pay the owners are on interest, explicitly forbidden by Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw), which has prevented Pakistan from escaping the debt trap since its creation, even though it has paid back the principles of such loans many times over.

So the regime can pat itself on its back as much as it wants, but the Dua of the people during Ramadhan will be for its removal and the return of Islam as a state and constitution.

 

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