Press Release
Free Naveed Butt
Weak before the Immense Pressure for the Release of Naveed Butt, the "Kidnapper" Regime Resorts to Cheap Lies 

Eight long months after the last hearing, a hearing at the Secretariat of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances took place yesterday, 26 May 2015, regarding the abduction of the Official Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Pakistan, Naveed Butt, who was kidnapped by agency thugs on 11 May 2012. The judge condemned the agencies for their false story that Naveed was killed in a drone attack in the tribal regions that was carried in an agency-inspired newspaper piece in July 2013. Hizb ut Tahrir condemns this lowly tactic of the Raheel-Nawaz regime to persist in hiding behind falsehood, in order to deflect the immense pressure upon it for the release of Naveed Butt.

It is known that Naveed was kidnapped in front of witnesses by the thugs of the regime, outside of his home, having returned there with his children from their school. This was after months of the agencies hunting him here and there, inquiring after him and issuing threats through any channel that was available to them. After his kidnapping, as further confirmation, several of the sincere from amongst the people of power confirmed Naveed's presence in the dungeons of the agencies. Furthermore, it is also known that several Shabaab of Hizb ut Tahrir have been kidnapped for several months at a time, claimed by officials of the agencies that they did not take them, only to be later released by the same agencies. These agency officials shamelessly violated their oaths to Allah (swt) before the courts by openly lying.

Facing huge pressure for the release of Naveed from all corners and levels of Pakistan, as well as from Muslims throughout the world, the "kidnapper" regime has adopted cheap tactics to deflect that pressure. It is more than apparent that the regime has chosen the path of lying kidnappers because it does not have a single Word of Truth to defend itself from the strong call of Hizb ut Tahrir to abolish the American Raj and establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" in its place.

The "kidnapper" regime will soon know its mistake in choosing the path of forceful suppression of Islam. It is only bringing closer its own collapse. The courts of the soon to arrive Khilafah "Caliphate", inshaaAllah, will bring forth all those responsible for kidnapping, which falls under the serious crime of spreading mischief on the earth. The courts will try the ones who issued the orders from the traitors in the political and military leadership, as well as those thugs that executed their evil commands and punish them for their fighting Allah (swt) and His Messenger. Allah (swt) said,

[نَّمَا جَزَاءُ الَّذِينَ يُحَارِبُونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَيَسْعَوْنَ فِي الْأَرْضِ فَسَادًا أَنْ يُقَتَّلُوا أَوْ يُصَلَّبُوا أَوْ تُقَطَّعَ أَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُمْ مِنْ خِلَافٍ أَوْ يُنْفَوْا مِنَ الْأَرْضِ ذَلِكَ لَهُمْ خِزْيٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَلَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ - إِلَّا الَّذِينَ تَابُوا مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ تَقْدِرُوا عَلَيْهِمْ فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُورٌ رَحِيمٌ]

“Those who fight against Allah and His Messenger and run about trying to spread mischief on the earth, their punishment is no other than that they shall be killed, or be crucified, or their hands and legs be cut off from different sides, or they be exiled from the land (they live in). That is a humiliation for them in this world, and for them there is a great punishment in the Hereafter; except those who repent before you overpower them. Then, be sure that Allah is Most-Forgiving, Very-Merciful.” [Surah Al-Maida 33-34]

Above all, those who persecute the sincere believers, invite their own ruin at the hands of Allah (swt), Allah (swt) said in the Hadeeth Qudsi,

«مَنْ عَادَى لِي وَلِيًّا فَقَدْ آذَنْتُهُ بِالْحَرْبِ»

“Whoever harms my Wali I declare war against him.” [Bukhari]. Without doubt, regret and despair on a day where neither will save one is reserved for the tyrants themselves who persecute the callers to Islam rather than heed their call. Allah (swt) says

[إِنَّ الَّذِينَ فَتَنُوا الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَتُوبُوا فَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ جَهَنَّمَ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابُ الْحَرِيقِ]

“Those who persecute the Believers, men and women, and do not turn in repentance, will have the Penalty of Hell: They will have the Penalty of the Burning Fire.” [Surah Al-Buruj 85:10].

And regret and despair are both for those who issue the commands of oppression, as well as those thugs who are their limbs, eyes and ears in the execution of those commands, blindly obeying those who disobey Allah (swt) and His Messenger (saw). Allah (swt) said,

[وَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا إِنَّا أَطَعْنَا سَادَتَنَا وَكُبَرَاءَنَا فَأَضَلُّونَا السَّبِيلَ]

“And they will say: Our Lord! Verily we obeyed our chiefs and our great ones, and they misled us from the (Right) Way” [Surah Al-Ahzab 33:67]

Finally, Hizb ut Tahrir further assures the Muslims that its "Free Naveed Butt" global campaign will continue, encouraged by the weak position of the government that forced it to deflect pressure through cheap tactics, until our dear brother is returned to us safe and well inshaaAllah.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Pakistan