Press Release
Press Conference Regarding Abduction of Engineer Owais
Advocate of the Khilafah "Caliphate" Engineer Muhammad Owais Must Be Freed Immediately

Today, 18 September, the family of Muhammad Owais, caller of Khilafah "Caliphate", along their lawyer, held a Press Conference at Karachi Press Club. They stated that Muhammad Owais is an electronic engineer and holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA). On Friday, 11th September 2015, he left his house at 10:00 am but after Jummah prayers, the family lost contact with him. The family went to Masjid-e-Ibraheem, DHA Phase 4, which is near his office and the people in the vicinity informed them that a person was arrested by plain clothed security agencies' personnel, accompanied by uniformed police. After this information, the family went to Police Station Gizri nearby, however the police refused to give any information regarding Owais. After this, the family sought help from the Police Help Line 15, but they were not even issued a complaint number!

The police claimed that that they have no information regarding his whereabouts, even though an entire week has elapsed. So today the family filed a writ petition in Sindh High Court, Karachi Bench, for his recovery.

The family appealed to the media that it must expose how the rulers are using the Nation Action Plan as a cover to abduct capable and sincere Muslims, rather than presenting them before courts. They asked as to how it is now a crime to lead a life according to Islam and work for the return of the Khilafah "Caliphate" in a state that was established in the name of Islam. They said Muhammad Owais is a much respected man with an upstanding, unblemished character and demanded that the judiciary ensure his recovery.

Since the time of General Musharraf, subsequent governments have continued the practice of arresting, torturing and abducting the Shabaab of Hizb ut Tahrir in a doomed to failure effort to suppress the call for the Khilafah "Caliphate". Despite the regime's lowly tactics, this blessed Dawah for the implementation of the Deen of Allah (swt) has reached every segment of society and at every level, with the people embracing it strongly and growing in admiration of the Hizb's brave stance in the face of the regime's tyranny. Moreover, the current Raheel-Nawaz regime is pursuing the failed path of the previous regimes, which earned them the wrath of the people and exposed their weakness, as its resorting to force has exposed its inability to answer the political and intellectual struggle of the Hizb.

Hizb ut Tahrir demands that the very least the current regime can do is step aside to make way for the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate", removing any obstacles in front of the Hizb including the release of the advocates of the Khilafah "Caliphate" from imprisonment or abduction. And Hizb assure the traitors in Pakistan's military and political leadership that their efforts to stop the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate" are failing and will only earn them a severe punishment in Hereafter.

((وَيَأْبَىٰ ٱللَّهُ إِلاَّ أَن يُتِمَّ نُورَهُ))

"But Allah will not allow except that His Light should be perfected" [At-Taubah:32]

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Pakistan