Press Release
Raheel-Nawaz Regime Launches Slander Campaign against Hizb ut Tahrir
Media Must Propagate Truth, NOT Lies

On Friday 5^th December 2014 the Raheel-Nawaz regime's agencies with the help of local police raided a talk arranged by Hizb ut Tahrir in Gulberg, Lahore, and arrested a number of its Shabab. Such talks are a routine activity arranged by Hizb ut Tahrir, across the country in many localities, to explain the idea of Khilafah "Caliphate" and its importance for the revival of the Ummah. While the arrests of the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir on the orders of the tyrants is nothing new, what was different this time was the manner in which the regime presented our Shabab, placing a sheet over their heads in front of the media and accusing them of being linked with ISIS. After seeing that physical torture, abductions, arrests and harassment neither deterred Hizb ut Tahrir from its struggle, nor reduced the love for Hizb ut Tahrir within the Ummah and the armed forces, the regime has resorted to slander campaigns in the media, by attempting to link the party and its men to the activities of the militant organization "ISIS".

Hizb ut Tahrir would not normally have bothered to address this slander, because every aware person knows that Hizb ut Tahrir is an Islamic political party, which struggles for the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate" by strictly following the method of Messenger of Allah (saw). Thus, Hizb ut Tahrir limits itself to the political and intellectual struggle and Hizb ut Tahrir considers militant struggle for achieving this objective as Haraam. Since the day of Hizb ut Tahrir's inception, Hizb has been following this path strictly and even severe repression, torture and the martyrdom of several of its Shabab did not force the Hizb to leave this Shariah methodology. However, we were compelled to answer the slander this time because of the manner in which the media projected the lies of the corrupt, traitorous regime, without asking the trusted and respectable Hizb's position over the matter, which is disappointing and belittling the value of the media.

We inform the media that in order to know the extent of the lies and slander against Hizb, one needs only read the FIR (First Information Report) charge sheet in which the authorities have not even accused the Shabab of affiliation with ISIS. However, in front of the media the cause of their arrest has been projected as if they were doing wall chalking and distributing leaflets in favor of ISIS. Yes, the tyrant rulers are intellectually incapable and bankrupt, so possess no credible answer to Hizb ut Tahrir's political and intellectual struggle. However, we as Muslims must not accept that our media should undermine its own credibility, by assisting the tyrant rulers in spreading their lies against Islam, its Khilafah "Caliphate" and its advocates. The current course of the rulers is completely in compliance with the actions of the Kuffar Qur'eysh who could not answer the call of RasulAllah (saw), so they started declaring him a magician - Allah forbid (نعوذ بااللہ). Similarly, the current rulers have started such lowly acts, after seeing the popularity of Hizb's call within the people of Pakistan and its armed forces, falsely trying to claim that Hizb ut Tahrir is a militant organization.

We care not for the regime's attempts to tarnish the image of the Khilafah "Caliphate" and Hizb ut Tahrir, by falsely linking its struggle to ISIS. We care not for this sort of propaganda to create a distance between Hizb and the people and the armed forces. We care not because if this sort of slander had any chance of being successful, then Hizb ut Tahrir would have finished a long time ago in Pakistan at the beginning of its work, and not now when it is well known and respected throughout Pakistan, in all regions and at all levels. We warn the rulers and their henchmen that with the permission of Allah the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate" is very near and after its establishment your hearts will be gripped just upon hearing the news of its establishment, although your torment upon Judgment Day will be far more severe. We also advise our brothers in the media that they also have to stand in front of Allah (swt) and only their good actions and deeds will help to bring salvation for them, so they must not play any part in the sinful spreading the lies of the regime.

[فَلْيَحْذَرِ ٱلَّذِينَ يُخَالِفُونَ عَنْ أَمْرِهِ أَن تُصِيبَهُمْ فِتْنَةٌ أَوْ يُصِيبَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ]

"And let those who oppose the commandment beware, lest some Fitnah befall them or a painful torment be inflicted on them." [Surah Al-Noor 24:63]

Shahzad Shaikh
Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir
in the Wilayah of Pakistan