News:

On Saturday 23 August 2014, amidst the continuing political crisis in Pakistan, the third round of talks between representatives of the government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf ended without any progress. Whilst the PTI leader, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, demanded that the Prime Minister resign, the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asked for 30 days to conduct an independent investigation into allegations of election fraud. Separately, the PTI party chief, Imran Khan, demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister from office and told his supporters that the sit-ins will continue across the country until this requirement is met.

Comment:

1. Some observers think that the Islamic countries - including Arab and non-Arab - in the Arab Spring did not arise yet, are far from its effect. And others think that those countries are safe and live in harmony with the regimes, which are no less oppressive and unjust than their counterparts in countries in which the Spring began. However, both sides are wrong. Just because revolutions did not break out in many of those countries, it does not mean they are satisfied with their governments and regimes. The stage is set for any party or popular leader to overthrow their rulers, even if the candidate does not reflect the identity of the Islamic Ummah and its demand for the establishment of the Law of Allah (swt) like Imran Khan and Tahir ul-Qadri. This shows how the thirst of the Ummah - including the people of Pakistan- to emulate their brethren in countries that in which the Spring rages against tyrant dictators.

2. The traitors in the military leadership in Pakistan - and behind them America - want to exploit such feelings in the people and the army for the criminal military operations against the Muslims of North Waziristan, which are for the sake of America and its occupation of Afghanistan. They want to busy the people in the conflicts between the traitors in the political and military leadership in their service to America. However, this does not mean that the traitors in the political and military leadership have not agreed to carry out military operations in North Waziristan. Rather both sides of have political means and both use them for their respective interests. So, the traitors in the military leadership took advantage of those feelings to put pressure on the traitors in the political leadership, like Nawaz Sharif, and the parliament to support the North Waziristan operations, which are rejected by both the people and the majority of the armed forces, particularly mid-ranking officers and below, as well as soldiers and combatants. Moreover the traitors in the armed forces want to portray that their hands are tied and that Nawaz is to blame, so as to prevent anger in the armed forces against them. As for Nawaz, he is grateful to his American masters for retrieving him from the dustbin of history and so is willingly playing his part.

3. Traitors in the military leadership backed Imran Khan, Tahir ul-Qadri and their movement to exploit the anti-regime feelings of the people and the army to put pressure on the government and divert anger from themselves. They are portraying to the army that the government insisted on negotiating with the Taliban, whilst the traitors in the military leadership wanted to carry out military operations, even though the Nawaz Sharif regime threw its full support with the operations at the most critical time. They also point to the government harassment and prosecution of the former army chief, General Pervez Musharraf, and the persistence of the government in criticizing the army, particularly by the Defense Minister, Khwaja Asif, amidst calls for his resignation. They also point to the regime's normalization of relations with India, which the army detests. For all these reasons, the traitors in the military leadership push Imran Khan and his party and Tahir ul-Qadri and his group claiming to the army that they are teaching the government a lesson. The government is then expected to learn the lesson and proceed in the direction that the military leadership wants. However, the Ummah is still waiting for a true leader who will lead it to uproot the American agents and establish the Shariah of its Lord under the shade of a Khilafah "Caliphate" according to the methodology of the Prophethood, which is no doubt soon, inshaaAllah.

Written for The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by

Abu Amr