News:

On Sunday 15th June 2014, ISPR Director-General, Major-General Asim Saleem Bajwa, announced that, "On the directions of the government, the Pakistan Army has launched a comprehensive operation against foreign and local terrorists, who are hiding in sanctuaries in North Waziristan Agency. The operation has been named Zarb-e-Azb. Our valiant armed forces have been tasked to eliminate these terrorists regardless of hue and color, along with their sanctuaries."

Comment:

The US has succeeded in ensuring a full-scale military operation with the help of traitors in the political and military leadership of Pakistan. Since 2004, Washington has been demanding the launching of military operations in the tribal belt of Pakistan, against those Mujahideen who are fighting against its occupation of Afghanistan. Initially, the Army Chief and President of Pakistan of the time, General Pervez Musharraf, knew that the people and the armed forces of Pakistan hate America and support those people who are fighting against the US occupation in Afghanistan. So, as a loyal American agent, Musharraf tried to manage public opinion by saying that we can't stand and fight against the US and so we are compelled to take its side. However, this excuse could not last because the people and the armed forces considered this so-called War on Terror as America's war. Therefore, when in 2004, Musharraf sent troops into the tribal areas, many in the armed forces refused to obey orders. The soldiers and officers knew that the tribal Muslims fought alongside them against the Soviet Union and defeated it. And also the tribal Muslims provided Pakistan a much needed strategic depth into Afghanistan, beyond into Central Asia until the Russian borders, in case of Indian aggression.

Asides from North Waziristan, almost every other tribal agency was subjected to military operations. However, the US always demanded military operations in North Waziristan. Neither Musharraf nor Kayani could dare to announce military operations in North Waziristan in their long tenures. Whenever they tried to do so, they faced very strong opposition from the armed forces' rank and file, who regarded this as a red line that must never be crossed. However, when the US announced its limited withdrawal plan from Afghanistan in 2014, leaving behind a substantial presence of several bases and tens of thousands of security personnel, it made it clear to its agents in Pakistan's leadership that if this plan is not accepted by the Mujahideen fighting against its occupation, then military operations in North Waziristan must be launched.

America knew that a strong opinion against this operation within the armed forces' could not be changed by only organizing attacks on the military and public, placing the blame on the tribal Muslims. Therefore, they pushed their agents to initiate a dialogue process, which was destined to fail from the very first day. It was made to fail through a series of "false flag attacks on military personnel, with the final nail in the coffin of negotiations in the form of an attack on Karachi International Airport. Now traitors in the political and military leadership have forced the Pakistan Army to destroy Pakistan's tribal assets and strategic depth with its own hands.

The sincere amongst the armed forces must realize that it is their silence which is encouraging these traitors to fulfill US interests at the cost of Pakistan's own interest. And this treachery can only be ended when they give Nussrah to Hizb ut Tahrir for the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate". Then the Khilafah "Caliphate" will erase these artificial boundaries created by the British between the Muslims of Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, making them one single state, which no one in the world would dare to pressurize to leave its interests, in order to fulfill foreign interests.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Shahzad Shaikh
Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Pakistan