Hizb ut Tahrir held countrywide protests in condemnation of the wasteful Tirah Valley Operations that have resulted in the death of dozens of soldiers and tribal Muslims. These operations were initiated on Friday, 5 April 2013, without announcement, by traitors in Pakistan's leadership. Such operations exploit our armed forces in order to save the cowardly American occupying forces in Afghanistan from the armed resistance of the Muslims in the tribal areas that lie between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Protestors held banners and placards declaring "Tirah Valley Operation: Don't allow Pak Army to be fuel for American crusade" and "Tirah Valley Operation: Slavery to America, Betrayal of Ummah". The protestors called for a stop to using the Pakistan Army as a fuel for America's crusade in the tribal areas.

General Kayani has proven by the Tirah Valley Operations that he is the actual ruler of Pakistan, whilst a caretaker democratic government sits on its hands in Islamabad. Only the securing of American interests concerns Kayani and his small club of traitors in Pakistan's leadership, whilst the entire country is stricken by huge electrical shortages in blistering heat with tens of millions deprived of even the use of fans to cool themselves. Moreover, rather than seizing these tyrants for their flagrant violation of Islam and neglect of the Ummah, democracy and dictatorship grant "legal" backing for their actions, as they are both man-made systems that trample over the commands and prohibitions stipulated by Allah (swt).

Hizb ut Tahrir calls the armed forces of Pakistan to grant it the Nussrah to secure the return of the Khilafah "Caliphate" to these Muslims Lands. Indeed, only Hizb ut Tahrir is amongst us to lead us to the establishment of this Khilafah "Caliphate" and end the dark days of American hegemony. Hizb ut Tahrir has prepared an entire constitution of 191 articles, accompanied with divine evidences from the Quran and Sunnah. It has prepared a library of books elaborating upon Islam, its solutions and its method of implementation. It has produced armies of capable, aware and committed, men and women to advise and account the rulers of the Khilafah "Caliphate" in their implementation of Islam. It works throughout the Muslim world and is the world's largest party working for the unification of the Muslim World as a single Khilafah "Caliphate" state. And it is full of politically capable jurists (Fuqaha'a), and at the forefront is its Ameer, the honorable scholar Sheikh Ata Ibnu Khalil Abu Arrashtah who has the capability to lead this entire Ummah, with the grace of Allah the Almighty.

The Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah of Pakistan

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Mukhtarat from The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir   Issue No. 17 Jumada II 1434 AH

The Express Tribune in Pakistan ran an opinion piece on 23^rd March by Pervez Hoodbhoy: "On choosing popes and caliphs" which criticized Hizb ut Tahrir's work to revive the caliphate as "impossibly difficult." Before refuting this claim, we object to three words that are so out of place in the writer's introduction to his argument that they cannot be left without contention: "Today, several Muslim groups are marketing the idea that restoring ancient glories is contingent upon reviving the caliphate".

1.    The word "ancient" is rejected when referring to the Islamic caliphate! That word, according to the dictionaries of English and the historians of antiquity, refers to the period from the beginning of recorded human history to the fall of the Western Roman Empire, a full two centuries before the birth of Islam and the establishment of the righteous caliphate. If, however, a figurative meaning is intended, then the word "ancient" is used mischievously to distance Muslims from their very recent past. A past that was not only glorious, it was abiding and dominated the world stage for thirteen centuries; its demise was an aberration of history, a disaster for humanity and a humiliation for the Muslims, while its return shall render our current subjugation to the crony rulers of the capitalist west, a fading memory as from the time between sleep and wakefulness.

2.    The word "idea" is rejected, because here it implies either an uncertainty or an alternative where none exist. It is ironic that, in addition to Hizb ut Tahrir, Osama bin Laden was mentioned as a proponent of the caliphate, and yet there is no mention of Pakistan's inglorious impotence as American forces killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and unmanned drones continue to kill and main thousands of civilians, with impunity, on either side of the British-drawn Durand line. Wherever we turn, under Western hegemony there is disgrace and defeat; only the caliphate could reverse this and bring glory, hence our rejection of the word "idea" in this connection.

3.    The word "marketing" is likewise rejected, because its misuse places the caliphate on a par with a product and those who work for it on a par with those who twist words to deceive and belittle the truth.

Revival of the caliphate is an Islamic duty, and, as Allah does not oblige the impossible upon Muslims, we persevere with this noble task in adherence to the Sunnah of Allah's Messenger (saw).

Pervez Hoodbhoy, in order to adduce the "impossibility" of reviving the caliphate, enumerates many sources of difference between Muslims: too many sects, schools of thought, location of the caliphate's city, individual rivalries, race, colour, ethnicity, and adoption of a language of state; to which we say: "So what!" Indeed, we insist upon reminding the writer that the caliphate is not only for Muslims, it is also for non-Muslims!

The writer's contention of impossibility appears to stem from his overextension of the comparison of popes and caliphs. He writes: "the new pope speaks for 1.2 billion Catholics" and then asks: "Who should speak for the 1.5 billion Muslims today?" "The problem" he says, "is that the caliph is generally understood to be both the spiritual as well as temporal leader." However, that which is "spiritual" about the caliphate is not its leadership, but the simple realization by Muslims of the source of its legitimacy: it as an Islamic obligation upon the ruler and the ruled. As for the caliphate's global leadership, it is neither pontifical nor spiritual, rather, it is intellectual. The enlightened Muslim thinkers and politicians will share the caliph in propelling Islam to the centre stage of world affairs and debate.

The caliphate will govern the territory it controls and impose rules for organizing life's affairs, as do all states; so why the scaremongering? And who, except for those who pant after the West, would imagine that a caliph from a ‘different' school of thought or colour of skin could be less acceptable than the vile and corrupt cronies and despots that now rule Muslim lands by the dictates of America?

The caliphate is a political and executive authority; it follows the axioms of politics, and is understood easily by the politicians and statesmen, and the only ones that should fear it are its enemies. And fear it, they certainly do.

Dr Abdullah Robin

Friday, 17 Jumada 1 1434 AH, corresponding to 29 March 2013