Press Release
Writ Petition Against Illegal Banning of Hizb ut-Tahrir Stalled for Six Years Is the Meaning of Independent Judiciary to Facilitate the Tyrant Rulers' Oppression?

Hizb ut-Tahrir is the world's largest Islamic political party, working in over forty countries to resume the Islamic way of life, through the implementation of KHILAFAH. Because the Hizb wants to uproot the Kufr capitalist system within the Muslim countries and establish KHILAFAH Rashida, the colonialists, in particular America and Britain, bans Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Muslim countries through their agents. In Pakistan, the American agent Musharraf banned Hizb ut-Tahrir in 2003 on the directives of America, failing to present any justification to do so. It is because of this fact that an anti terrorist court in Karachi, which was established by Musharraf, disposed of a fabricated case against the peaceful members of Hizb and wrote in its decision that government has not mentioned any reason for banning Hizb ut-Tahrir, and so this banning is "Defective." The regime does not have a single shred of legal or Shar'i evidence to support its action, because Hizb ut-Tahrir considers it haram (forbidden) to take up arms in order to establish the Khilafah "Caliphate". This is why government has been using delay tactics during court proceedings for the last six years. But the high court is allowing the government to continue its oppression by giving lengthy dates consistently, instead of issuing an order to lift the ban on Hizb ut-Tahrir on the grounds that no evidence has been provided by the government. This pretext, that it is a banned organization, has been used by the government to arrest its members for the last six years. We are not allowed to do any peaceful demonstration or public gathering. Our members are abducted by government agencies without any reason and then they are tortured and then abandoned in deserted places. Until now, the government agencies have abducted a respected member of Hizb ut-Tahrir from Rahim Yar Khan, Dr. Abdul Qayyum, for the last six months at their torture cell. The traitor rulers and the so-called "Independent Judiciary" are responsible of all these acts of hostility, with the judiciary providing legal cover to these American agents.

Tomorrow is the hearing of the Hizb ut-Tahrir ban case. It has yet to be seen whether this time again the judiciary takes the side of the government, as it has been taking for the last six years or whether they will become fearful of Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw) and lift the ban from Hizb ut-Tahrir. We appeal to the sincere people present in the lawyer's community and human rights organizations to raise their voice against this oppression. We declare to tell the government that Hizb ut-Tahrir has been facing hostilities and aggression throughout the world for the last sixty years and arrests and banning has never been able to divert Hizb from its goal of establishing Khilafah "Caliphate". No doubt the promise of Mohammad (saw) will be proved and Khilafah "Caliphate" will be established tomorrow if not to day.

 Naveed Butt
The Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan