The constitutional package, which was an outcome of hectic deliberation for months and was signed by both secular and religious parties, will ensure the uninterrupted implementation of kufr.  Not even a single article of this package was extracted from Qur'an and Sunnah.  Rather through this package all the kufr and non-Islamic articles of the constitution have been retained which have no link with Islam whatsoever.

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• Belgium to ban the burqa
• European Islamophobia spreads to Poland
• America intervenes to stage manage Sudan's election
• Moscow Accuses West of 'Narco-Aggression'
• Pak-US ‘slave' dialogue was a good step forward : Wall Street Journal

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Belgium to ban the burqa
The draft legislation in Belgium, aimed at clamping down on Islamic extremism, forbids anyone from hiding their faces in public. And those who break the law will be fined or sent to prison for up to a week if the legislation is approved. A committee of MPs voted unanimously yesterday to put the hard-line bill to a full parliamentary vote on 22 April. If passed, Belgium will become the first country in Europe to impose a complete ban on the wearing of full-face veils. The law has cross-party support and is likely to be voted through. "We cannot allow someone to claim the right to look at others without being seen," said liberal MP Daniel Bacquelaine, who proposed the bill. "It is necessary that the law forbids the wearing of clothes that totally mask and encloses an individual."Mr Bacquelaine estimated that a few hundred women in Belgium wore facial veils, adding that it was a rising trend. Belgium's Muslim population stands at about 600,000, or 6 per cent of the total. More than one-third of those are Moroccans or of Moroccan descent. The second largest Muslim ethnic group is made up of Turks.

European Islamophobia spreads to Poland
In a sight familiar in some west European countries but new to Poland, dozens of protesters demonstrated in a Warsaw suburb last weekend against the construction of a mosque.  Plans by Poland's tiny Muslim community to build a place of worship and an Islamic cultural centre face opposition in a sign that concerns about Islam may be spreading eastwards to the staunchly Catholic European Union member. Between 15,000 and 30,000 Muslims, many of them immigrants from Chechnya, live in Poland -- the biggest ex-communist EU state where more than 90 percent of the 38-million population declare themselves Catholics. A telephone survey conducted on March 25 among 500 Poles showed 48 percent opposed construction of a mosque with a minaret in their neighborhood, while 42 had nothing against it.  "This fear comes from a lack of knowledge... The average citizen knows a Muslim was behind the World Trade Centre attacks but doesn't follow the differences within Islam. Poles have simplistic ideas about Islam as they lack their own experience with Muslims", said Agata Skoworn-Nalborczyk, an Islam specialist at the Warsaw University.

America  intervenes to stage manage Sudan's election
The US special envoy for Sudan, Scott Gration, held talks in Khartoum on Thursday with opposition leaders in a bid to rescue this month's Sudanese elections. Gration, who flew in on Wednesday according to diplomatic sources, met separately with Umma party members, Islamist leader Hassan al-Turabi and Democratic Unionist Party head Mohammed Osman al-Mirghani. The mission comes a day after presidential hopeful Yassir Arman pulled out of April 11-13 vote for fear of fraud, casting doubt on the electoral process and clearing the way for a likely first-round win by President Omar al-Beshir. The move from Arman, candidate of the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement from the south of the country, came after Beshir ruled out deferring the first multi-party Sudanese polls in 24 years.Already before Arman's pullout, the United States, Britain -- Sudan's former colonial power -- and Norway, a main provider of aid, on Wednesday expressed concern over the elections. "We urge all parties in Sudan to work urgently to ensure that elections can proceed peacefully and credibly in April," US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Store said."We are deeply concerned by reports of continued administrative and logistical challenges, as well as restrictions on political freedoms," they said in a joint statement.

Moscow Accuses West of 'Narco-Aggression'
Russia has accused the United States of "conniving" with Afghan drug producers by not destroying opium crops as U.S. troops advance in Helmand Province, one of the major opium growing regions. The allegation, which came in a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, was the second time this week that Moscow has criticized the West over the opium issue. NATO rejected the charge and said Russia could help by providing more troops to combat the insurgency. U.S. Marines in Helmand Province have told villagers that they will not destroy this year's crops. In the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, which was captured by U.S. troops last month, the U.S. offered to pay poppy farmers to destroy their own crops and provide seed for them to plant other crops next year. Apart from these token gestures the US has done little to eradicate Afghanistan's opium crops. Afghanistan produces over 90 percent of the world's opium and Russia has become its largest market for the drug.

Pak-US ‘slave' dialogue was a good step forward : Wall Street Journal
The United States must deliver what Pakistan needs rapidly, and without too much intrusive monitoring of its strategic nuclear assets, the US newspaper ‘the Wall Street Journal' writes while commenting on last week's Pakistan-US strategic dialogue held in Washington. Terming the strategic dialogue a good step forward, it said, the US must also give the Pakistan military more usable weapons to fight its militancy. The newspaper said that the US must use its influence on India to give Pakistan breathing room, so it can concentrate on the war within rather than stay ready for action on two fronts, one against India and the other on the Afghan border.  Opening US markets to Pakistani textiles and other goods will also help in the near term. In the long run, Pakistan needs help to move up the economic value chain and into manufacturing goods.  With its growing population, it needs GDP growth of 6 percent or more each year to keep improving the lives of its 175 million inhabitants, half of whom are below 18 years of age. That growth depends on foreign investment, which is critically dependent on security and good governance, both of which have been in short supply in recent years. But Pakistan must also avoid becoming dependent on aid or ceding its sovereignty in the process of acquiring aid.  As former military dictator, Mohammad Ayub Khan, put it bluntly: Pakistan needs "friends not masters," it concluded.

After getting a loud and clear message of rejection from Indonesia, where a furious political campaign against his visit was launched, conveying him a strong message that, unlike the treachery rulers, the Muslim Ummah is not ready to welcome the murderer of their brothers and sisters. Obama arrived at Kabul late night, as if he were an unwanted guest without invitation. In addition to large demonstrations of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Indonesia, they got the signatures of a thousand Ullema on 7th of March, for a joint rejection of Obama's visit of Indonesia.

       A very high-level delegation from Pakistan is currently visiting Washington for what has been termed as the "Strategic Dialogue" - a new US foreign policy gimmick.  The delegation consists of Federal Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Chief of the Army Staff, Gen. Ashfaque Kiyani, Chief of Inter Services Intellegence (ISI) and Federal Secretary of Foreign Affairs among other high officials.  The talks will be chaired by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.  The talks will cover not just security, but also economic development, water and energy, education, communications and public diplomacy, and agriculture. Pakistan has mentioned ten topics, including health as well as science and technology.

These talks are touted as a step forward in the long-term partnership between US and Pakistan.  All this is to dispel the deep feeling present in the political and intellectual medium that US will ditch Pakistan once she is done with Afghanistan as she did during the nineties when Soviets were kicked out of Afghanistan.  Through these talks US wants to show the people of Pakistan that she cares for their problems such as electricity crisis and is willing to help.

However, the reality is completely opposite.  Pakistan's miseries are solely tied to imperialist intervention, capitalist system and the treachery of its rulers.  The rulers, to cover-up for their connivance, always try to portray Pakistan as a weak country that cannot survive without US's political and financial support.  But the reality is that the amount of economic loss which Pakistan bears is far greater than what she gets in return. Pakistan lost $35 billion since it joined the crusading war of Terror; not to mention all the chaos, bomb blasts and insecurity that came as a bonus.  And in return she was given the gift of humiliating Kerry Lugar Law under which Pakistan was to get $1.5 billion each year for the next five years.  This is what we call peanuts!!!

Through this "strategic dialogue" Pakistani government shows its people that she is pushing for civil nuclear deal with America to overcome the energy crisis.  This again is a lie since Pakistan has other means available to produce abundant electricity through coal, wind and hydro resources and they need not rely on nuclear energy.  As a matter of fact only Thar coal field has the "potential to generate 100,000MW of electricity for 300 years" according to Federal Government's Engineering Development Board's monthly magazine "Industrial Bulletin (June 2008 issue)."  Hence this is a fake dependence on the US to continue to justify her slavery.

On the other hand US's real objective behind this "Strategic Dialogue" is to further meddle in Pakistan's affairs.  America has learnt through her experience that she has to be more hands-on and cannot depend on these incompetent, lazy and inapt rulers who don't even have the capability to be servants let alone be rulers.  It is for this very reason Gen. David Petraeus calls for "whole of government" approach rather than just dealing with political and military leadership alone.  This micro-management is already being witnessed in the areas of security and intelligence where America has deployed FBI agents, Blackwater and armed personals under the guise of trainers. Hence through "strategic dialogue" US wants to develop a mechanism via which she would have a legal and official channel to micro-manage Pakistan's affairs related to economy, water and energy, education, communications and agriculture. 

One of the most important issues to be discussed in these talks would be the US's War of Terror in Pakistan.  A new military operation is on the cards and the recent spate of violence is the precursor to it.  US has been demanding for a military operation in North Waziristan for quite some time and its regular drone attacks are softening down the opposition for the last few months.  Pakistani military has also sealed off the region to gain strategic advantage.  These talks will convey detail instructions to the military and political leadership for the upcoming carnage in Pakistan and how to manage its fall-out in public. 

Hence, the "strategic dialogue" is nothing but ‘strategic surrender' of Pakistan. Pakistan's puppet rulers are the biggest assets US can have in the region. But Al-Hamdulillah, these assets are exposed before the Ummah and have lost all credibility.  Now it is the responsibility of the sincere among the people-of-power to step up and provide Nusrah to Hizb ut-Tahrir so that Khilafah "Caliphate" is established and these agents are uprooted.  This is the only way of liberating the Ummah from US slavery.

Naveed Butt

The Official Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan