Press Release
General Raheel Endorses the False Claim that US Crusade is Our War
US Crusade Was Never Our War and Never Will Be

General Raheel Sharif on 4^th December, after his arrival from a long US tour, declared that the US crusade is our war, during his speech at a Defense Exhibition in Karachi. He said that "Pakistan's current enemy lives within us and looks like us". By stating this, the Raheel-Nawaz regime has declared those tribal Muslims who fight in Afghanistan against the occupying US forces as enemies.

Hizb ut Tahrir asks the Raheel-Nawaz regime that if fighting against Soviet occupying forces in Afghanistan was Jihad, then how can fighting against US occupying forces in Afghanistan be declared as terrorism? If those who fought against Soviet forces were respected Mujahideen, then how can those who are fighting US occupying forces now be denounced as lowly terrorists? If helping tribal Muslims who fought Soviet forces was an Islamic duty, then how today is suppressing those tribal Muslims who are fighting against US forces according to Islam? These are questions which the Musharaf-Aziz and Kayani-Zardari regimes failed to answer. And now the Raheel-Nawaz regime does not have any convincing answer either. Today traitors in the political and military leadership of Pakistan have not been able to give any ethical, intellectual or Sharia answer to the people and armed forces of Pakistan, as to why they have participated in the US crusade and why it is our war. Hizb ut Tahrir states clearly that this war was never our and never will be, rather it is a US crusade and participation in it is Haraam, earning the wrath of Allah (swt) on the Day of Judgment.

Aware people within the Ummah now understand how US intelligence agencies and the Raymond Davis network are allowed to plan attacks against the people and the armed forces of Pakistan. These enemies then oversee the execution of these attacks, blaming the tribal Muslims in order to herd Pakistan's armed forces into the tribal areas, to burn them as fuel for the US crusade.  Peace is only possible in Pakistan and Afghanistan by expelling the US from this region. Pakistan's armed forces and its intelligence agencies are fully capable of doing this, and more so with the help of the tribal Muslims, just as they expelled Soviet Union from Afghanistan previously as one unified and co-operating force. In order to erode this capability of Pakistan's armed forces, they are forced to fight against tribal Muslims so they won't unify, in order that the US stays in the region.

Hizb ut Tahrir has been warning the people and the armed forces of Pakistan regarding the treacheries of US agents in the political and military leadership and will continue to do so. In order to end this treachery, it is imperative that the sincere in the armed forces uproot the traitors in the political and military leadership and provide Nussrah to Hizb ut Tahrir for the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate". The Khilafah "Caliphate" will easily expel the US from this region, by deploying the combined strength of the noble armed forces and hardy tribal Muslims.

Shahzad Shaikh
Deputy to the Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Pakistan