Press Release
The Shahzaib Murder Case Verdict is Confirmation of the Failure of Pakistan’s Judiciary.
The Khilafah’s Shariah Judiciary is the Only Solution

On October 18, a three-member bench of the Supreme Court acquitted the accused Shahrukh Jatoi, of murder in the notorious Shahzeb murder case. Although this verdict sparked public condemnation, it was not unexpected. In dozens of previous verdicts, including the Nazim Jokhi, Raymond Davis, Abdul Majeed Achakzai cases, courts have given colonialists and other powerful people a way to escape through various legal loopholes. The Shahzeb murder case has again established that the system has collapsed. The state of Pakistan has become a state to serve the elite, in which the common man has no stake. It is time to replace the collapsed system with a Khilafah (Caliphate), built on the strong foundation of Islam!

In the Shahzeb murder case, the entire state machinery was involved in saving the accused, at every stage. Obstructing the registration of the case, not arresting the accused, transferring him out of the country, turning the jail into a five-star hotel, providing luxurious facilities in the hospital, forcing consents and then, on the basis of terrorism provisions, initially rejecting consent only to then accept, through the Supreme Court. It is clear that every level, Pakistan’s judiciary has collapsed. A three-stage judicial appeal system gives powerful people the time, space and convenience to subvert justice. Through the appeals system, death sentences are first commuted to life imprisonment, before acquittal, as happened in this case. The long period of ten years provides an opportunity for the elite to frustrate the heirs from getting justice, forcing them into consent, through the abuse of the Islamic law of Diyah (Retaliation). Shahzeb’s father, DSP Aurangzeb, died whilst remembering his son.

If there was a system of Islam today, in the court of the Qadi Aam, Shah Rukh Jatoi would have imposed Qisas on conviction, within a few hearings. The heirs who did not consent, would not be pressured. They would not have been compelled to grant consent out of frustration. Democracy’s British judiciary can never provide justice, because, in this system, the powerful people make laws in their own interests, by hijacking the parliament.

However, the first Khaleefah (Caliph) of Muslims, Abu Bakr Siddique, started the Khilafah with this statement,

ألا إن أقواکم عندي الضعیف حتی آخذ الحق له وأضعفکم عندي القوي حتی آخذ الحق منه “The weak among you is deemed strong by me, until I return to them that which is rightfully theirs. And the strong among you is deemed weak by me until I take from them what is rightfully someone else’s.” (Al-Badaiya Wal-Nahiya, Tabari, Ibn Hisham)

O Sincere Military Officers in the Armed Forces of Pakistan! Be it the secular democratic government system of Pakistan, the capitalist economic system, the British judiciary based on common law or the secular education system, everything has collapsed. Although the social system has survived to some extent due to the Islamic values within Muslims, that too is under threat due to liberal policies. The foreign policy based on slavery to the international order has turned Pakistan into a failed state. All this happened despite the fact that we are a nuclear power, with a youthful population of 220 million and abundant resources, blessed with the Deen of Islam. So mobilize and start Khilafah from Pakistan. Reject the nation-state order and slavery to the international order, made by the West. The government and the opposition political parties have no solution to the problems of Pakistan. It is only Hizb ut Tahrir which is in front of you, fully prepared and capable of initiating a revolutionary change, within hours. So come forth and grant the Nussrah for the re-establishment of the Khilafah on the Method of Prophethood. The Messenger of Allah (saw) said,

«وَمَنْ مَاتَ وَلَیْسَ فِی عُنُقِهِ بَیْعَةٌ مَاتَ مِیتَةً جَاهِلِیَّةً» “And whoever dies without the allegiance (of the Khaleefah) around his neck, then he dies the death of Jahiliyyah.”(Muslim)

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan