Event:

Tensions between Pakistan and India escalated, when the Indian government claimed that the Pakistan Army crossed the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector of Jammu and attacked Sarla check-post killing five soldiers on 6^th August 2013. The Government of Pakistan denied any such intrusion. After this incident tensions escalated not only along the LoC, which is a ceasefire line between India and Pakistan along Occupied Kashmir, rather it extended to the international border as well, which is the rest of the border between India and Pakistan. The Indian government canceled the planned secretary level meeting with Pakistan and now there are rumours being circulated that the anticipated meeting between the Indian and Pakistani Prime Ministers, on the side lines of the United Nations' annual general assembly meeting, in New York, will also be canceled.

Comment:

In 2003 when Musharaf was in power, Pakistan and India signed a treaty in order to end firing incidents and tensions along the Line of Control. However, since the beginning of 2013 alone, there have been more then a hundred violations reported from the Indian side. Despite increasing Indian hostility and the killing of Pakistani soldiers and civilians, traitors in Pakistan's political and military leadership, led by Nawaz Sharif and General Kayani, responded weakly. General Kayani in his speech at the Kakol Military Academy on 13^th August 2013, on the eve of Independence Day, did not even raise harsh words against Indian aggression. Instead, in blind obedience to his masters in Washington, Kayani tried to convince the people of Pakistan that the internal security situation is now the priority for national security, rather than the manifest external Indian threat. Similarly, Nawaz Sharif submissively advised India to forget the past and again extended a proposal of negotiations between the two countries.

Since the time of Musharaf, traitors in political and military leadership are trying to convince the people of Pakistan that it is necessary to be submissive and capitulating before India, for the economic prosperity of Pakistan, even if the Muslims must bury their rights, such as ending the brutal Indian Occupation of Kashmir and preventing the mistreatment of Muslims all over India. So they are strengthening ties with India, trying to give India a "Most Favored Nation" status and making moves to purchase more then one thousand megawatt electricity from India.

The response of these traitors is in line with the American policy. America wants to win India under its influence and is using Pakistan as bait, so that it can use India against China, in order to contain China within its borders. India cannot act according to this American plan, until her relations are normalized with Pakistan. And at the same time America can make Pakistan more dependent on India to weaken any Khilafah "Caliphate" that arises.

The response of the rulers of a strong Muslim country, with a population of more then 180 million people and the seventh largest armed forces in the world, is shameful and disgusting. If countries like Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela, located on America's very doorstep, who are far weaker than Pakistan, can reject American dictations and even have the courage to expel American diplomats, then why can Pakistan, the one and only Muslim nuclear state, not reject American dictations and respond to Indian hostility with vigor? Instead of doing so, the traitors in the political and military leadership are always ready to go any limits, in order to implement American policies and undermine Pakistan's sovereignty.

Only the Khilafah "Caliphate" will rescue Pakistan from this disgraced situation and elevate it to its rightful place, in accordance to its huge potential and capabilities.

Shahzad Shaikh

Deputy Official Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Pakistan