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Pakistan Headlines 25/10/2016
Headlines
• The Raheel-Nawaz Regime is One in Its Betrayal of Kashmir
• Democracy Eradicates the Hungry, not Hunger
• Back Breakingly Expensive Natural Gas When Available, Suffer in Cold, Harsh Winter When Not
• Abandon Slavery to the US State Department to Ensure India Receives a Befitting Response
Details
The Raheel-Nawaz Regime is One in Its Betrayal of Kashmir
Participants of a Corps Commanders meeting at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi on 14 October expressed serious concern over what they said was a leak from a security meeting which was reported by Dawn earlier. In a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), participants of the meeting expressed serious concern over "feeding of false and fabricated story of an important security meeting held at PM House and viewed it as breach of national security." This comes in response to a controversial news exclusive by Cyril Almeida of 6 October which stated “an extraordinary verbal confrontation between Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the ISI DG” took place in a meeting chaired by PM Nawaz Sharif.
Since the publication of Cyril Almeida news, Pakistan’s media and political medium has been dominated by questions as to whether or not there exists a real rift between civil and military leadership and whether or now the reporter who leaked the news is to be booked under law for going against the “national interest”? However, the main agenda of the meeting where the alleged confrontation took place has been neglected from the scrutiny that it deserves.
The main agenda was to suppress all groups that have been supporting Kashmiri freedom fighters and to expedite investigations pertaining to Pathankot and Mumbai attack cases, as India has demanded as preconditions for normalization talks. Here the traitors in the civil and military leadership are exactly on the same page as their master is the same, the United States. So on the one hand, the civilian senate committee recommended that “backchannel talks between India and Pakistan should be restored” whilst the military’s ISPR stated that “communication channels including hotline between the two militaries are open”. Washington has been urging its agents both in the military as well as civil leadership to take action against the groups that are unsettling the Indian occupation of Kashmir.
The Raheel-Nawaz regime's unified stance to strangulate the Kashmir resistance's much needed support takes place when the uprising in Indian occupied Kashmir has crossed the 100 day mark. It comes at a time that the resilient Kashmiri's have been subjected to unprecedented level of torture, hundreds have been arrested, over a hundred Muslims have been martyred, thousands injured, hundreds by pellet guns which have blinded many. In addition the Muslims languish under curfews, food-shortages and communication disruptions. Yet, at a time that the Hindu State is reeling before a strong, defiant uprising in Kashmir, the Raheel-Nawaz regime has come to New Delhi’s rescue in its hour of need. The Raheel-Nawaz regime has brought India much needed time to crush the Kashmiris with full force, by resorting to lip service, compiling dossiers and tired calls for the United Nations to resolve the issue. As if this was not enough, the Raheel-Nawaz regime is now committed to a full fledged operation against Kashmiri freedom groups. Suppression of the Kashmir resistance movement will not only grant India much needed relief in Kashmir, it will free it up to advance its hegemonic designs in this region.
The Muslims reject the traitors in the civilian and military leadership who plot against Islam and Muslim Lands at the behest of the Kuffar. Only the Khilafah "Caliphate" (Caliphate) on the Method of the Prophethood and its implementation of Islam can end the current course of humiliation before India and liberate Kashmir as is obliged by Islam through an organized Jihad by our armed forces. RasuAllah (saw),
«مَا تَرَكَ قَوْمٌ الْجِهَادَ إلاّ ذُلّوا»
“No people abandon Jihad except that they are humiliated” (Ahmad).
Democracy Eradicates the Hungry, not Hunger
On 11 October 2016 the International Food Policy Research Institute released a survey regarding hunger and poor nutrition. Pakistan has been ranked as a country with "serious" hunger level with 22 per cent of its population undernourished on the 2016 Global Hunger Index. Placed 107 in a ranking of 118 developing countries, Pakistan performed worse than most of its South Asian neighbours in eliminating hunger.
The report reveals the lie of capitalism of the trickle down effect. In Pakistan, despite its immense resources, 22% of its population faces serious hunger, whilst the current rulers establish mega projects to fill the pockets of their cronies. Since its creation, Pakistan has seen leaders come and go with claims of liberating the poor, uplifting the economy and providing basic necessities for all. These claims were all nothing more than lip service to deceive the people, whilst the rulers plundered more wealth for themselves and whisked it off abroad, as the Panama Papers indicated. Even the urban areas reveal stark disparity between rich and poor, so what of the rural areas. The middle class is battling just to make ends meet, whilst the poor eat a meal not knowing when they will get their next. With the majority of Pakistan's population living in rural areas, they can only dream of having drinkable water, basic foods, electricity and drainage systems.
Pakistan is one of those countries which have been gifted with so many natural resources that they are enough to feed itself as well as other parts of the region. However the reason for the failure to distribute the wealth lies in Democracy which has ensured that the law making is given to a select elite who legislate as per their whims, plundering the wealth at the expense of suppressing the masses. In addition, more fundamentally, Democracy is the ruling system of Capitalism, whose economic system focuses on production only and leaves distribution to the trickle down effect. Democracy is depriving the people of Pakistan of basic needs of food, shelter and clothing, compelling many to commit suicide. Capitalism is ensures that a select rich flourish at the expense of poor. In this man-made system, the eradication of poverty and hunger is a utopian idea and instead the hungry and poor are being eradicated.
Democracy is not for securing the needs of the people, but only for securing the whims and desires of the rulers, who manipulate laws according to their interests. Democracy has directly led to the huge concentration of wealth in the hands of a small elite throughout the world, including the West. It is only in the Khilafah "Caliphate" upon the Method of Prophethood that the laws are defined by the Creator (swt), so the system does not serve the ruling elite. In the Khilafah "Caliphate", it is the responsibility of the ruler to ensure that all its inhabitants are provided with the basic needs. The Khulafa'a in the past have shown such high standards of fulfilling their responsibilities that even in the times of famine, they used to eat what the other Muslims ate. Unlike today when the rulers manipulate with economic statistics and do not leave a single luxury of the world, whilst the public sleeps hungry. The Khulafa'a were assigned with the responsibility of the Ummah and are held account for their guardianship. RasulAllah (saaw)
«الإمام راع ومسؤول عن رعيته»
“All of you are guardians and are responsible for your guardianship.” (Bukhari and Muslim)
Back Breaking Expensive Natural Gas When Available, Suffer in Cold, Harsh Winter When Not
Domestic consumers in Punjab will face severe gas shortages yet again during the upcoming harsh winter due to the curtailment of supply from 10pm to 5am daily, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Petroleum was informed on 17 September. Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told a meeting of the committee, chaired by Chaudhry Bilal Ahmed Virk, that the worst year of gas shortages for consumers in Punjab had started.
Not only will the people face shortages that will cripple the ability to keep their heaters and cookers functioning in the cold, natural gas rates are linked with prices of crude oil in the international market and fluctuate accordingly. Even then, the regime has ensured that the gas prices have rocketed over the last few years. This re-iterates the fact that government boisterous claims of a superb economy are lies. With industrial production reduced to distressing levels, interest-laden debts reaching unprecedented levels, many of the state and public properties are being privatized which worsens the problem as the government loses avenues for generating revenues. The government then increases the tax rates for itself and increases the tariffs for the new private owners to guarantee their profits. Both rises are borne by the common man whose back is already broken and an industry which is crippled and floundering.
It is a great injustice to sell public property, such as natural gas and electricity, to the people at high prices, since the state must secure the basic needs of living at prices that are affordable, with any profits being spent on the affairs of the Ummah, rather than upon interest to colonialist institutions. Water, natural gas and electricity are the public property of the Ummah. The state is responsible for their distribution and delivery to the people, recovering the cost of extraction and distributing when needed and ploughing any profit back into looking after the affairs of the Ummah. RasulAllah (saaw) said,
«المسلمون شركاء في ثلاث: الماء والكلأ والنار»
“The Muslims are partners in three things: water, feeding pastures and fire”. (Ibn Majah)
The pitiful situation can only be turned around by the establishment of Khilafah "Caliphate" (Caliphate) on the Method of the Prophethood. Not only will it end burdening the Muslims with price hikes by profiteering from these energy resources, it will ensure that such basic needs are provided to all.
Abandon Slavery to the US State Department to Ensure India Receives a Befitting Response
Indian belligerency against Pakistan continues unabated. One villager was killed and five others injured due to unprovoked firing by Indian security forces across the Line of Control (LoC) on 19 October 2016, the Foreign Office said in a statement. Abdul Rehman, 28, resident of village Palani was killed due to firing by Indian forces across the LoC, it said. Throughout the several months of Indian hostility, the current military leadership has claimed that it will retaliate, including the 14 October Tweet from the military spokesman, General Asim Bajwa, who stated, "any attempt of misadventurism & irresponsible act will be met with the most befitting response." Yet, despite the shedding of much Muslim blood and humiliation of Pakistan at the hands of the hostile Indians, a befitting response has yet to be seen.
Allah (swt) revealed,
(لَتَجِدَنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَدَاوَةً لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا الْيَهُودَ وَالَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا)
“You will surely find that of all the people, the most hostile to the believers are the Jews and the mushrikeen.” [Surah al-Maidah 5:82] The hostility of the Hindu State is well known to the current rulers of Pakistan, yet they do not adopt the appropriate stance.
The rulers also know that India is a favoured satellite of the United States, as a bulwark against Muslims and China is also known to the rulers with Sartaj Aziz declaring on 13 June 2015 that the US has formed a policy to "build up India" as "their entire situation is towards containing the Islamic world and China." Yet, they accept the demands of the US State Department to exercise "restraint" despite huge provocation. Whilst the affairs of Pakistan are tied by traitors in its leadership to Washington, the Muslims will continue to be humiliated by India. It is imperative that the armed forces extend their Nussrah for the re-establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate" (Caliphate) on the Prophethood. Then and only then will they be led by a righteous Imaam to liberate the Muslim Lands from occupation in a glorious Jihad, whether it were Kashmir, Afghanistan, Palestine or Iraq.