The Role of the Armed Forces is Jihad for the Supremacy of Islam

An ISPR spokesman said while talking to troops carrying out the operation in Miramshah, North Waziristan, the army chief expressed satisfaction on the progress achieved so far. "General Raheel Sharif once again emphasized on the officers and men to eliminate all local and foreign terrorists and their sanctuaries," he said. "Alluding to the end-objective, the COAS affirmed that terrorists would be chased and hunted down across the country till their final elimination."

Inevitably, the armed forces are demoralized and there are reports of widespread rejection of orders and desertions, which necessitated the army chief's visit to the front line of America's war. At the behest of America, General Raheel is chasing after those who have been fighting the Americans since 2001, preventing its malignant occupation from settling on the land. As for those who attack the armed forces in order to incite it to sink into the quagmire of North Waziristan, the American Raymond Davis network, the General has left them to roam the country, even though their bases, embassies and consulates are well known and can be sealed within hours. This twisted state of affairs has occurred because the armed forces are no longer orientated according to the military doctrine that was established by RasulAllah (saw) and preserved by the Khilafah "Caliphate" throughout the era of ruling by Islam.

For over thirteen hundred years the Muslim armed forces knew and valued their vital role in ensuring the supremacy of Islam. Whenever any enemy occupied Muslim Lands, they rose to repel and eradicate it. And they payed a key role in removing oppressive rule outside of the lands of Islam, thus opening new lands to Islam and liberating their people from the burden of Kufr rule.

This is how Islam spread rapidly to embrace the lion's share of the world's inhabited surface. Through the blood of countless martyrs in the armed forces, Islam rose as a beacon of justice and sanctuary for the entire world. Rather than being demoralized, the armed forces surged forwards seeking the two Hasans, martyrdom or victory.

Today the Muslims are in urgent need of Khaleefah who as the political and military leadership will orientate the armed forces to fulfil their role in protecting the Ummah from the hostile non-Muslim states, unifying all Muslim states as a single state and carrying Islam to all of humankind. And inshaaAllah then, and only then, will we look forward to a time when Islam has dominated the entire world. RasulAllah (saw):

»لا يبقى على ظهر الأرض بيت مدر ولا وبر إلا أدخله الله كلمة الإسلام ، بعز عزيز وذل ذليل، إما يعزهم الله فيجعلهم من أهلها، أو يذلهم فيدينون لها«

"This case is sure to reach the horizon of night and day. Allah will not leave a single house settled or nomadic not only as setting this Deen with the glory of the glorious or the humiliation of the insignificant. Allah will exalt Islam with glory and demean disbelief with humiliation." (Ahmad).

Regime Speeds Ahead with Privatization of the Golden Goose, OGDCL

Minister of State for Privatisation Mohammad Zubair informed the Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCoP) on Tuesday 8 July that work on Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) transaction was being done on the fast track and it would be completed by September. OGDCL is involved in exploring, drilling, refining and selling oil and gas in Pakistan. It is the market leader in terms of reserves, production and acreage. It is based on Jinnah Avenue, Blue Area in Islamabad, with the Government of Pakistan holding 74% stake in the company.

Rest are held by private investors. In 2013, it has revenue of Rs. 223.365 billion and profit before tax soaring at Rs. 90.777 billion. It has repeatedly ranked among the Forbes Global 2000. OGDCL's daily production, including share from joint ventures averaged 39,659 barrels (6,305.3 m3) of oil; 937 million cubic feet (26,500,000 m3) of gas, and 358 metric tons of liquefied petroleum gas. The remaining recoverable reserves of OGDCL stood more than 142 million barrels (22,600,000 m3) of oil and 9,997 billion cubic feet 9,997 billion cubic feet (283.1 km3) of gas as of June 30, 2010.

Islam has stipulated oil and gas as a public property whose revenue is the right of the public, regardless of race, language or school of thought. RasulAllah (saw) said,

«المسلمون شرکاء فی ثلاث الماء والکلاء والنار» "Muslims are partners (associates) in three things: in water, pastures and fire (energy)" [Abu Dawood.]. Thus under the Khilafah "Caliphate", with its Islamic constitution, the benefit of electricity will be for the public, with the state supervising the matter to ensure that. However, the government is bent on handing this golden goose to private hands. Moreover, to make the sale more lucrative for the new private owners, in compliance with the IMF, the regime is raising the gas prices from now, which will further burden the population which is crippled by rising inflation, taxation and power costs. Dawn reported on 8 July 2014, '"We will gradually rationalise gas prices to encourage new investment, promote efficiency in gas use and assure that there will continue to be no fiscal cost from the gas sector," wrote Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde.'

Mere Adherence of Article 62 and 63 Will Never Fix the Kufr System

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf moved on Wednesday 9 July to seek Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's disqualification for alleged concealment of facts in his nomination forms submitted for last year's elections, citing Article 62 and Article 63 of the Pakistan Constitution. Article 62 lists a number of qualifications for membership of the National Assembly, including "good character and is not commonly known as one who violates Islamic Injunctions," "adequate knowledge of Islamic teachings and practices obligatory duties prescribed by Islam as well as abstains from major sins", "sagacious, righteous and non-profligate, honest and ameen." The constitution also details a number of disqualifications in Article 63, which include mental instability, insolvency, criminal conviction and accepting dual-citizenship or relinquishing their Pakistani nationality, among others.

By limiting its accounting of the government to Article 62 and 63, the opposition has shown that it is has nothing to offer the country should it come to power. It has focused its attack on the individual who is coming to power and not the ideology by which he rules and judges. In Democracy, the members of the assembly are given the authority to either to accept or reject the laws of Allah (swt) based on majority decision, after voting over it. This is even though Allah (swt) revealed,

وَمَا كَانَ لِمُؤْمِنٍ وَلاَ مُؤْمِنَةٍ إِذَا قَضَى اللَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُ أَمْرًا أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهُمْ الْخِيَرَةُ مِنْ أَمْرِهِمْ وَمَنْ يَعْصِ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلاَلاً مُبِينًا

"It is not befitting for a believing man or woman to have any choice in a matter, when it has been decided upon by Allah and His Messenger." [Surah Al-Ahzab 33:36].

So, even if 100% of an assembly consists of God-fearing, sagacious, righteous, honest and ameen people and were presented with Islam's laws such as forbidding of usury, enemy presence on our soil, privatization of electricity, fornication etc. for voting upon, with the laws being endorsed by this 100%, this mechanism of law making would be considered Haraam. This is because in the aforementioned ayah, Islam has forbidden the Muslims from having any choice in the matter, so the believer does not have an option to say "yes or no" but is only charged with the duty to implement it. In other words, the condition of the endorsement by 51% to make an Islamic law into the law of the land, is against Shari'ah. In the era of the Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashida, we do not find a single incidence where the implementation of an Islamic law was conditional upon the majority opinion. The collective opinion of all of humankind has no weight before the order of Allah (swt). Allah (swt) said,

((أَلاَ يَعْلَمُ مَنْ خَلَقَ وَهُوَ اللَّطِيفُ الْخَبِيرُ))

"Should not He Who has created know? And He is the Most Kind and Courteous (to His slaves), the Well-Acquainted (with everything)." [Surah al-Mulk 67:14]

It is the Khilafah "Caliphate" that assigns Sovereignty to Allah (swt) alone. It is the Khilafah "Caliphate" alone whose constitution is established on the revealed sources, the Quran and the Sunnah. Neither the elected Khaleefah nor the elected men and women of the Majlis-e-Ummah have any choice in referring to Islam, for they must always refer to Islam.

It is the Khilafah "Caliphate" alone that has establishes each and every article of the constitution upon Islamic evidences. Thus it is the Khilafah "Caliphate" alone that ensures our education, foreign policy, economy, judiciary, consultation; accounting and removing of rulers are all according to Islam. It is only this Khilafah "Caliphate" which will look after our affairs as Islam commanded. RasulAllah (saw) said,

كانت بنو إسرائيل تسوسهم الأنبياء، كلما هلك نبي خلفه نبي، وأنه لا نبي بعدي، وستكون خلفاء فتكثر، قالوا فما تأمرنا؟ قال: فُوا ببيعة الأول فالأول، وأعطوهم حقهم، فإن الله سائلهم عما استرعاهم

"The Prophets looked after the affairs of Bani Isra'eel. Whenever a Prophet died, he would be succeeded by another. There is no Prophet after me, but there will be many Khulafa'a." They asked, "What do you order us?" He said, "Give them the Bayah one after another, one at a time, give them their right for Allah will ask them about their affairs." [Muslim]

The Regime is Blind to the American Presence that is the Cause of Terrorism on Our Soil

America launchedd a pre-dawn drone attack in Dattakhel, about 35km west of Miramshah, regional headquarters of North Waziristan, on Thursday 10 July, which is a slap in the face of Pakistan's sovereignty. This is the first drone strike since the regime launched the operation Zarb-i-Azb in the restive tribal region on June 15. However, Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam said the government did not have any official confirmation regarding the veracity of reports about a fresh drone strike in Miramshah. She added that Pakistan's position on such strikes was clear. "We have made it clear that these attacks are unacceptable, they violate Pakistan's sovereignty... drone strikes would complicate our efforts to eliminate terrorists," she said.

Another proof has emerged that the war in North Waziristan is America's war, supported by America's drones and fuelled by the blood of Muslim armed forces and tribal people. Even though this latest drone attack is common knowledge, rather than giving a befitting retaliation, the regime has adopted the role of an ostrich, with its head buried in the sand. It acts as if it is blind to the vast American presence in the country which both allows the American war to take place and also the attacks on our armed forces to ignite that war. The regime has blood on its hands as it allows containers of Americans to enter the country without checking, it allows its spies to carry arms and gather intelligence without fear of recrimination and it allows the American embassies, consulates and bases to mastermind their terrorist network.

The rulers have cheated and betrayed our people due to their insistence to rule by other than Islam. They have turned truth into falsehood and portrayed falsehood as the truth. They embrace the enemy and seek hostility against friends. They are like the shepherd who drives his own herd to the brink of death and destruction. Imam Ahmad narrates that RasulAllah (saw) said,

«إِنَّهَا سَتَأْتِي عَلَى النَّاسِ سِنُونَ خَدَّاعَةٌ يُصَدَّقُ فِيهَا الْكَاذِبُ وَيُكَذَّبُ فِيهَا الصَّادِقُ وَيُؤْتَمَنُ فِيهَا الْخَائِنُ وَيُخَوَّنُ فِيهَا الْأَمِينُ وَيَنْطِقُ فِيهَا الرُّوَيْبِضَةُ قِيلَ وَمَا الرُّوَيْبِضَةُ قَالَ السَّفِيهُ يَتَكَلَّمُ فِي أَمْرِ الْعَامَّةِ»

"There will come upon people years of deceit in which the liar will be believed, the truthful disbelieved, the treacherous will be trusted and the trustworthy held to be treacherous, and the despicable (Ruwaibidah) will speak out." It was said, Who are the despicable ones? He (saw) said, "The lowy, ignoble man." They are deserving of removal only, for a ruler who cheats on his people and does not look after them, will neither enter Jannah nor even smell its sweet fragrance. Bukhari narrates that RasulAllah (saw) said,

«مَا مِنْ وَالٍ يَلِي رَعِيَّةً مِنْ الْمُسْلِمِينَ فَيَمُوتُ وَهُوَ غَاشٌّ لَهُمْ إِلَّا حَرَّمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ الْجَنَّةَ» "There is no governor/wali who takes charge of Muslims and dies cheating them, except that Allah prohibits him paradise."

Who will Avenge the Muslims of Palestine and Masjid al-Aqsa?

Thirteen Palestinians have been killed in air strikes by the Jewish State on the Gaza Strip early Saturday 12 July, bringing the toll on the fifth day of violence to 118, medics said. Muslims throughout Pakistan are enraged at the criminal attacks by the Jewish State against the Muslims of Gaza, who have no armed forces or power to respond. Their rage is directed at the Muslim rulers who collectively possess armed forces of over three and a half million strong, with a million men within rapid response range of the cowardly Jewish army. Yet, the Jewish State spills rivers of Muslim blood during the blessed month, in which the noble Salahudeen delivered a severe blow to the previous occupation of the lands of Palestine by the crusaders.

InshaaAllah this cruel initiative by the Jewish State will only speed its obliteration for such attacks do not increase fear of it, but only anger against it and awareness about the real solution to its hostility. A sign of the awareness of the people of Pakistan is the wide circulation of the video from Hizb ut Tahrir in Palestine calling for the mobilization of Pakistan's armed forces in these resounding words, ""Have not your souls longed for Al-Aqsa, have not your foreheads yearned to prostrate on the soils of Al-Aqsa, have not your hearts craved to meet Al-Aqsa? Have not you yearned for the station of Israa' of RasulAllah (saw), have you not deliberated with yourselves to become martyrs on the soil of the blessed land for your blood to mix with the blood of the noble Companions? Al-Aqsa is calling out to you, where is Al-Farouq Omar, where is Salahuddin... Where is the Khilafah "Caliphate" of the Muslims, do you belittle the fact that the station of Israa' of RasulAllah (saw) is desecrated by the Jews and their filth? This is the call of Al-Aqsa to you on the anniversary of the destruction of the Khilafah "Caliphate", Establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" and liberate me, establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" and rescue me...".

"O Army of Pakistan ... America utilizes you to kill your brothers... America is seeking to destroy you... America is your enemy, so free yourselves of subordination to it... discard the agents from amongst you... Unify the word of Muslims, and restore cohesion amongst yourselves.

You, Afghanistan and the Muslims in the Indian Subcontinent, the Fergana Valley and the Caucasus are one Ummah and are able to support Islam and establish the Deen ... So Hizb ut Tahrir calls you that you establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" and proceed with your crushing armies to Bait-ul-Maqdis. You are worthy of attaining the honor of liberating it."

InshaaAllah soon, O our brothers, sisters and children in Palestine, soon.