Yesterday's incident at the Sylhet border region where the Indian BSF occupied Mandir Tila in Jaintapur and shot at the people wounding at least 15 is due to adopting a submissive stance by the agent government of Sheikh Hasina. For successive weeks now the BSF has been steadily increasing its haughty and aggressive attitude in the region but the government has been responding to the polytheist enemy with an utterly non-sense of a policy termed as ‘strong protests by the BDR'. We in Hizb ut-Tahrir clarify here to the Muslims of Bangladesh and the people of power the policies which must be adopted in order to deter the BSF:

• 1. Cutting off all diplomatic relationship with India which must be treated as a belligerent enemy as declared by Allah (SWT): Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the believers the Jews and those who are Al-Mushrikun [TMQ Al-Mai'dah: 82]
• 2. The Director General of BDR must be authorized to take a combative stance. While the BSF is shooting at our people, how does it make sense to send him to Delhi to meet the BSF chief and he then issues statements describing the meeting as ‘very cordial'? He is a soldier in the battlefield and must not be turned into a career diplomat. It is not befitting of a soldier to be sent for negotiations, rather he is summoned to fight wars.
• 3. As of now we have to resort to an offensive policy towards the BSF. We must take the fight to their border. We must conquer their land and it is they who have to reply with ‘strong protests'. We have to fire in their direction before they fire at us. After that their will be no BSF within sight. This is the only way to deter them. Allah (SWT) says: Then whoever transgresses against you, likewise transgress against him in the same way. [TMQ Al-Baqarah: 194]

In order not to be ambiguous, we say that these policies are not to be put forward to this government as a set of demands. This government commits treachery against the people and acts contrary to the commands of Allah (SWT) in the Qur'an al-Kareem: Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. And those who are with him are strong against disbelievers [TMQ Al-Fath: 29] However harshness has no place in the government's policies towards the crusaders and polytheists. This government must be removed but this is not in order to replace it with the BNP alliance which surrenders and commits treachery much the same way. Rather, the objective must be to overthrow the current kufr system and re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" which will execute the command of Allah (SWT): O you who believe, fight the disbelievers who are close to you and let them find harshness in you. And know that Allah is with the pious [TMQ At-Taubah: 123]