Hizbut Tahrir’s High Treason

By YLH

This morning I received an email from Pakistani branch of Hizbut tahrir addressed to Pakistani Generals asking them to rise up against the constitutional government of Pakistan and their own chain of command i.e. General Kayani and General Pasha. Article 6 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, has been thrown about a lot in wake of the Memogate scandal but nothing in the memo attracts Article 6. I wrote an article about Article 6 and memogate in Daily Times. However, Hizbut Tahrir’s letter presents a fit case for prosecution under Article 6 of the Constitution.

Article 6 supra reads:

“High treason. (1) Any person who abrogates or subverts or suspends or holds in abeyance, or attempts to hold in abeyance or attempts or conspires to abrogate or subvert or suspend or hold in abeyance the constitution by use of force or show of force or by any other unconstitutional means shall be guilty of high treason. (2) Any person aiding and abetting or collaborating the acts mentioned in clause (1) shall likewise be guilty of high treason. (2-A) An act of high treason mentioned in clause (1) or clause (2) shall not be validated by any court including the Supreme Court and a High Court. (3) Majlis-e-shura (parliament) shall by law provide for the punishment of persons found guilty of high treason.”

Hizbut Tahrir’s open letter to Pakistani Generals dated 29.11.11 has all the elements of High Treason as defined by the Constitution. The Government of Pakistan must act against this organisation immediately as it presents a clear and present danger to Pakistan’s constitution.

 I reproduce their open letter inciting Pakistani generals to overthrow Pakistan’s government, Pakistan’s army leadership and the very state of Pakistan:

To the Generals,
Air Marshalls,
Navy Admirals and
Officers of the Pakistan Armed forces
Respected Brothers in Islam,
We Hizb ut Tahrir address you in our capacity as a global political party, whose ideology is Islam. We are well known to you and so is our agenda, which is working for the establishment of the Islamic State, the Khilafah. Hizb ut Tahrir, is the only global party that works throughout the Muslim world, to liberate the Muslims from the hegemony of the colonialist powers, the foremost being America, by unifying the Ummah under the Kalima of Allah سبحانه وتعالى as one powerful state, ruled by a single Khaleefah.
We address you in your capacity as the actual rulers of Pakistan. It is an open secret that not only do you command the largest Muslim armed forces in the world, you also through the ISI, exert a commanding influence over the civilian institutions, the parliament and the judiciary. Being the real rulers of this country, only through you can the Ummah be liberated from the current crises, hardship and calamities that that she faces at the hands of the Western capitalist states, or you can lead her to further destruction.
Respected Brothers in Islam,
In the early hours of 2 May, 2011, the US Navy SEALS, reportedly violated our airspace and attacked a compound in Abbotabad. They reportedly killed Osama Bin Laden and then took his body away. This incident put the Pakistan armed Forces to shame both at home and abroad. At home your ability to safeguard our sovereignty was questioned, whilst abroad you were accused of complicity with the so-called terrorists. To add insult to injury, on 18 May 2011, commenting on the invasion of Abottabad, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, declared, “If I were in Pakistani shoes, I would say I’ve already paid a price. I’ve been humiliated. I’ve been shown that the Americans can come in here and do this with impunity.”And if this were not enough, it emboldened India against Pakistan. On 4 May 2011, Indian Army Chief General VK Singh said, “All the three wings (army, navy and air force) are capable of carrying out such operations, when needed.”
It is inevitable that pursuing America’s interests will compromise those of Pakistan’s, when one considers America’s strategic objectives. America’s strategic objectives have been to prevent Russian and Chinese domination of Eurasia, control the hydrocarbon resources of the Caspian Sea and the Middle East, control the security and the transit of hydrocarbons from the Caspian Sea and the Middle East and finally prevent the emergence of the Khilafah State. For achievement of these objectives, Pakistan is critically placed. And critical to directing Pakistan policy is its armed forces and the ISI.
In order to achieve this, the US needed to reduce Pakistan’s regional influence for three reasons. Firstly, the US needed to establish its physical presence in Afghanistan and naturally had to remove Pakistani influence there. Therefore, Pakistan’s support for the Taliban had to go. Secondly the Kashmir Jihad was detracting India away from assuming the US intended role of countering China. US needed a stronger India, hence the need to stop the Kashmir Jihad and to end ISI’s influence in India. Thirdly, America seeks to stop or at least delay the emergence of Khilafah. Hence, weakening the army and filtering out strong, professional and Islam-inclined officers from within the ranks of the army.
The 9/11 attacks, an event that has yet to reveal all of its secrets, provided an opportunity for the US to bring in a pliant pro-US government in Afghanistan, and Musharraf duly obliged with support to enable the US to remove the Taliban Government, mercilessly killing Muslims in pursuit of her objectives. Hence, Musharraf provided support to the US in removing a pro-Pakistan government, and installing a pro-US, pro-Indian and anti-Pakistan government in Afghanistan. The truth of Musharraf’s treachery was known to his Corps Commanders at the time, but they kept silent and thereby allowed him to weaken both the armed forces and Pakistan.
After Musharraf, these policies have been continued and now the roles have been assumed by his successors within the military leadership led by General Kiyani and the Director General of ISI, General Pasha, who have been providing the same level of unstinted support to the US in order to further weaken the armed forces and Pakistan.
Respected Brothers in Islam,
It is in this context that we call upon you, the silent majority, to break your silence and rise to the occasion. For if you remained silent and subservient, not only will you face the wrath of Allah سبحانه وتعالى on the Day of Judgement, the very institution of which you take pride in will be further turned against its own people and weakened as America wants its war to be taken beyond tribal areas into the major cities of Karachi and Multan. Furthermore, the very country which you are there to protect will be immersed into even more chaos and strife in front of your eyes in accordance with the US plan for this region as part of its Broader Middle East initiatives, initiated by US President Bush and continuing under President Obama.
For those of you who have the slightest of doubt about you being responsible for the weakening of our armed forces and country, we raise the following points for you to contemplate:
Is it not true that you remained silent when the US undertook the raid in Abbotabad, which the US was only able to undertake after the co-operation of Kiyani and Pasha? The attack only occurred after the extraordinary meeting between ISAF Commander US General Petraeus and General Kayani, at Chaklala Airbase on 25 April 2011, to be followed that very same night with General Petraeus making a teleconference with a White House meeting chaired personally by US President Barack Obama. Then the very next day, the ISI Chief, Pasha, made an unscheduled attendance to a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, a meeting which he is not usually part of. It is this meeting that Obama hinted at when he haughtily announced the death of Bin Laden, saying, “And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice.” And what of your silence when Kayani rushed to save America from the wrath of the sincere officers of the armed forces? Rather than inciting them against America, he tried to instill fear of the enemy in his own troops!
Is it not true that you remained silent when your leadership at the behest of US, moved the theatre of war from Afghanistan to the tribal areas of Pakistan? In the same way that you blindly submitted to the US demands to support them in the war on Afghanistan, similarly at the behest of Americans, you agreed to move the troops to the Western border to wage a war against your own people, weakening our positions on the Eastern border. Answering a questioning after a lecture in the US state of Arkansas, Hilary Clinton commented, ‘…So one of our first rounds of discussion with the Pakistanis was how it was not in their interest to permit terrorists to take over territory….so they began moving troops off the Indian border. They began going after the Pakistani Taliban.’ The strategic consequence of this was strengthening India as it divided our focus onto a new front, taking our attention away from our jugular vein, Kashmir. The decision at that juncture, at the behest of the US, led the armed forces into fighting within our own borders by killing our own Muslim brethren, and caused a schism within your own ranks. You lost many sincere officers in the ranks who refused to fight in the tribal areas, without mentioning the number of officers and jawans that were killed in the ensuing conflict. Furthermore, has this not resulted in factions within the armed forces, dividing it into pro-US and pro-Islam factions? And has this not been compounded by the policy of promoting those who are willing to support the pro-US policies in the region? So, armed forces that once had a vision across both borders, that had kept India and Russia at bay, is now focussed on fighting its own population, in a destructive war of Fitna. So how did you remain silent as Pakistan and the armed forces were weakened before your eyes, O Respected Gentlemen?
Is it not true that you remained silent when your leadership permitted the US to undertake drone attacks on our territory, with the clear policy of creating unrest in the tribal areas? The treachery was such that the drones were actually flying from the Shamsi air base in Baluchistan, whilst our rulers were persistently condemning them in public. The treachery was exposed when on February 13, 2009, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee stated clearly that the drones were flying from Shamsi airbase. So this indicates that Kiyani was working in collusion with the US, whilst deceiving not only the Ummah, but you all. He even asked for Predator drone attacks to be intensified. In a cable from the US Embassy in Islamabad, dated 11 February 2008, regarding the 22 January 2008 secret meeting between Admiral William J. Fallon, US CENTCOM, and Kayani, reported, “Referring to the situation in Waziristan, Kayani asked if Fallon could assist in providing continuous Predator coverage of the conflict area.” The drones flew from our soil with the consent of our leadership and with our known ability to shoot them down at will. Moreover, they sabotaged the peace agreements with the tribal leaders.
Is it not true that that you again remained silent whilst your leadership permitted the US to establish and develop its own independent intelligence network comprising of CIA agents and Blackwater mercenaries? The CIA now proudly boasts that it does not need the ISI. You cannot say that this was hidden from you, as there were numerous articles within the public domain detailing the extent to which the US contractors were not only killing and abusing our citizens, but more fundamentally, attempting to determine intelligence of our most sensitive sites and assets. If Musharraf, Kiyani and Pasha turned a blind eye to this, why did you not fulfil your oath and force them to stop it?
Is it not true that you remained silent when your leadership permitted Blackwater contractors, like Raymond Davis, to perpetrate assassinations, bombings and other activities in public places such as schools, mosques, market areas, in “false flag” attacks as they did in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout Latin America? So each time innocent civilians were killed by these attacks, you remained silent whilst the real culprits, the US contractors were given a free hand to continue.
Is it not true that you remained silent when your leadership provided protection to the murderer, Raymond Davis, whilst in custody, and then allowed him to be released? Instead of using the issue as an opportunity to expel all US operatives, and cut all forms of cooperation with the US, he was released. The US thanked Pakistan with a drone strike the very next day, whilst Pasha thanked the US by agreeing to a further 87 visas for CIA operatives!
Is it not true that you remained silent when your leadership permitted the establishment of the largest US embassy in the world on its soil? To achieve the same in Iraq, the US had to fight a huge war and spend billions of dollars, whilst your leadership has provided this without a single bullet being fired in resistance to it. If the US has achieved all of the above devastation and violation of Pakistani sovereignty without a large diplomatic presence, whilst its embassies known throughout the world as being launch pads for American intervention, what further benefit would the largest US embassy in the world bring to Pakistan? So how can it be argued that your silence has not weakened Pakistan and the Pakistani armed forces?
Is it not true that you remained silent when your leadership permitted US control of our F16’s? It is well known that they have come with their own US personnel and electronic codes such that they cannot be used by the PAF without these codes being provided by the US. So under the guise of upgrading, your leadership has rendered the F16’s as useless to the protection of Pakistani Air Space. So how can it be argued that your silence has not weakened Pakistan and the Pakistani armed forces?
Is it not true that you remained silent when the US initiated its campaign against the ISI, because it was supposedly fighting proxy wars that the US now wishes to stop? The ISI, once capable of bringing the Russians and the Indians down to their knees, is now attacked openly by the US and forced to hand over their strategic allies to the US in order to help the Obama administration win an election. So how can it be argued that your silence has not weakened Pakistan and the Pakistani armed forces?
Everyone knows that cutting the supply line to US/NATO troops, which passes through Pakistan, will paralyze their ability to launch and maintain military operations in Afghanistan, as well as the infamous drone strikes in Pakistani territories. So, isn’t it true that your silence serves as a lifeline for the US and NATO mercenaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Moreover, the US now has its own intelligence, its own personnel, both from its armed forces as well as private military contractors, access to almost all parts of the country and the use of our fighter planes if they wish. So this has effectively allowed the US complete access to undertake any operation they wish, inside or outside Pakistan, with impunity. Yet, when they did so in Abbotabad, Kayani feigned surprise! After all of this, do you not see that it is your silence which allowed the US through your leadership to weaken Pakistan and its strongest institution, the armed forces?
And is it not true that you remained silent when your government through your leadership initiated a campaign of harassment, imprisonment and torture of members of Hizb ut Tahrir. Their so-called crime was addressing the treacheries, by seeking the removal of a government that rules by kufr, rejects Islam as a system and way of life and prevents the sons of Mohammad bin Qasim from performing Jihad to liberate Kashmir, so as to enter India back to Islamic rule and unify the Ummah under one Khaleefah?
Respected Brothers in Islam,
It is only natural for the sincere to consider obstacles and the insincere to make excuses. As for those of you who will say that we are weak economically. To this we say, is it not the policies that have been implemented on us made us weak? There are many economic reports that have mentioned that the War on Terror has only weakened the Pakistani economy, to the tune of $68 billion. According to a study conducted for the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Shahid Javed Burki said, “If US civilian assistance is completely withdrawn, it will only have an impact of 0.14 percent on Pakistan’s GDP growth.” Pakistan has an immense variety of minerals and natural resources, including the world’s fifth largest reserves of copper and over one trillion dollars worth of untapped gold reserves in the Chaghi area and the Reko Diq mine. Pakistan is not short of coal and gas. Thar coal is one of the world’s largest, of about 175 billion tonnes of coal, and Pakistan has an estimated 25.1 trillion cubic feet of proven gas reserves. It has abundant fertile land; in 2005, Pakistan produced over 21 million metric tonnes of wheat, more than all of Africa (20 million) and nearly as much as all of Latin America (24 million). Pakistan is the 12th largest agricultural producer in the world with an agrarian output of $32 billion annually. Remember, O Respected Brothers in Islam, economic strength is about policy and vision and not about lack of means.
As for those of you who say that the US is militarily strong and we are weak, and that we did not have an option but to follow US dictates. For those of you who are sincere in this belief, we say the following: The Pakistan armed forces are the seventh largest in the world, and an established nuclear power, and possess advanced missile technology which is capable of neutralising the regional US military footprint. So is the US willing, let alone capable of absorbing such an assault, considering their current military overstretch, the overriding US public opinion demanding the return of US troops and their economic meltdown? During the Second Persian Gulf war, the Turkish armed forces refused to provide the US with a second front from the north. Did the US bomb them back to the Stone Age and indeed, could it? That is why on 11 March 2009, in his presentation to key Obama officials including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Chairman of the Interagency Policy Review of Afghanistan-Pakistan for the Obama administration, Bruce O. Riedel, said they had looked at the extreme option of invading Pakistan, and, of course, immediately dismissed it. Invading a country that possessed dozens of nuclear weapons would be something beyond madness. Everyone agreed. This weakness is also evident from the fact that the US required the use of Pakistan airspace, logistics, refuelling and intelligence in order to pursue the war in Afghanistan, so how can it be said that the US is strong? And after a ten year war in Afghanistan, they require your political influence in order to secure a peace deal with the Haqqanis and the Afghan Taliban that will bail out the US and the Obama administration. Allah سبحانه وتعالى says,
إِنَّمَا ذَلِكُمْ الشَّيْطَانُ يُخَوِّفُ أَوْلِيَاءَهُ فَلاَ تَخَافُوهُمْ وَخَافُونِي إِنْ كُنْتُمْ مُؤْمِنِينَ“It is only the Shaitan that causes you to fear from his (Shaitan’s) friends, but do not fear them, and fear Me, if you are believers.” [3:175]
As for Pakistan’s strategic location, the US ingress into Eurasia to contain China and Russia is completely dependent on Pakistan being the door to the Central Asian Republics. In addition, US control of the security and transit of energy, from the Central Asian Republics in the North, and the Middle Eastern oil coming through the straits of Hormuz in the south, is dependent on a pliant and obedient Pakistan. All it requires is a sincere leadership that would be able to use this strategic location, and its resources, to project itself well beyond its borders, in order to safeguard the interests of the Ummah, rather than the US.
As for those of you who will find this unacceptable, because this duty of establishing the Khilafah will mean a loss of the worldly interests that you have acquired through the armed forces or will acquire upon retirement. For you the presence of corrupt rulers who are responsible for the current hardships of the Ummah, the bloodshed and the destruction of Pakistan and its armed forces is worth less than the material benefits that is used as a cheap bribery to buy your allegiance. Perhaps you may fear Allah سبحانه وتعالى when you realise that no matter what you do, it is inevitable that you will enter your graves. You will have to abandon your wealth, your riches and your lush gardens, and you will have to fend for yourselves,
{كَمْ تَرَكُوا مِنْ جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ }{ وَزُرُوعٍ وَمَقَامٍ كَرِيمٍ}{ وَنَعْمَةٍ كَانُوا فِيهَا فَاكِهِينَ }{ كَذَلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَاهَا قَوْمًا آخَرِينَ }{ فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّمَاءُ وَالأَرْضُ وَمَا كَانُوا مُنظَرِينَ }
“How many of gardens and springs that they left behind, And green fields and goodly places, And comforts of life wherein they used to take delight! Thus (it was)! And We made other people inherit them. And the heavens and the earth wept not for them, nor were they given respite.” [Surah ad-Dukhan 44: 25-29].
Respected Brothers in Islam,
In recent years, we have warned you on many occasions with numerous leaflets, as well as press releases, all of which we are well aware you follow closely, even down to the sentences and words. More than ten years ago you ignored our warning when we through our leaflets told you that your traitorous leadership will allow the reversal of the policy on eastern and western fronts. Ten years ago you ignored our warning when we told you that your traitorous leadership will allow US field intelligence personnel to operate freely on our soil. Five years ago you did not heed our warning when we told you that your traitorous leadership had secretly permitted drone attacks whilst publically condemning them. One year ago you did not heed our warning when we told you that the US is capable of undertaking unilateral action in our cities like the Abbotabad incident.
And would you not heed our warning now, when we tell you that in near future your leadership will hand over our nuclear assets to the US? And if one day, the US initiates a unilateral action to take control of the nuclear weapons, which Kiyani has enabled them to do already, will you then again be surprised and remain silent? And will you not heed our warning that America with the assistance of Pasha and Kiyani has drowned Karachi in bloodshed to allow America’s war to be extended to Pakistan’s most populous city, creating yet another front for our armed forces?And if one day the war was extended into Multan or beyond Multan, will you be surprised and remain silent?
You have no right to remain silent as by your very tongues you took an oath to protect the country and the Muslims of this country. So are you not guilty of breaking that oath? We know, as well as you do, that there have been sincere elements from amongst you, who have realised their duty and have raised their voices against this enslaved submission to the US, and they have been arrested, tortured and released from the armed forces. They have not only fulfilled their duty but will also be free of your sin of silence on the Day of Judgement. What will you say on that day, O Respected Brothers in Islam?
Respected Brothers in Islam,
The solution is clear and that is to work with us and through us to remove these corrupt and secular rulers, to uproot this colonialist kufr system, and implement the laws of Allah سبحانه وتعالى through the establishment of the Khilafah. It is only through the Khilafah that you will unify the Ummah, establish the rights of the people, the fair distribution of wealth, return the armed forces to its essential role in the protection of the blood and honour of the Muslims and ensure the removal of the foreign hegemony from the region. This is a duty upon you and if you fulfil it the pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى awaits you. But if you delay and turn away, all of the Ummah will be witness upon you on the Day of Judgement, for you strayed away from the solution to the problems of this Ummah.
We know, there are those who are clear on the truth of matters and whose hearts shake with fear knowing that they have neglected this duty. To you we say, dear brothers, we are here already amongst you, look for us and you will find us. To you, we say, depend on Allah سبحانه وتعالى and He will suffice for you. Allah سبحانه وتعالى said,
يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنْ تَنصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ“O you who believe! If you help Allah, He will help you and strengthen your foothold.” [Surah Muhammad 47:7]
Allah سبحانه وتعالى has promised those who believe and do good deeds that they will establish Khilafah. He سبحانه وتعالى says:
وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُم فِي الأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَى لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا يَعْبُدُونَنِي لاَ يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا وَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَأُوْلَئِكَ هُمْ الْفَاسِقُونَ“Allâh has promised those among you who believe and do righteous good deeds, that He will certainly grant them succession to (the present rulers) in the land, as He granted it to those before them, and that He will grant them the authority to practise their religion which He has chosen for them (i.e. Islâm). And He will surely give them in exchange a safe security after their fear (provided) they (believers) worship Me and do not associate anything (in worship) with Me. But whoever disbelieved after this, they are the Fâsiqûn (rebellious, disobedient to Allâh).” [Surah an-Noor 24:55]
RasulAllah سلم و عليه الله صلى said,
عِصَابَتَانِ مِنْ أُمَّتِي أَحْرَزَهُمَا اللَّهُ مِنْ النَّارِ عِصَابَةٌ تَغْزُو الْهِنْدَ وَعِصَابَةٌ تَكُونُ مَعَ عِيسَى ابْنِ مَرْيَمَ عَلَيْهِمَا السَّلَام“Two groups of my ummah Allah has protected from the Hellfire: a group that will conquer India and a group that will be with ‘Isa ibnu Maryam.” [Ahmad, An-Nisa’i]
Abu Hurayra رضي الله عنه narrated,
وَعَدَنَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ غَزْوَةَ الْهِنْدِ فَإِنْ أَدْرَكْتُهَا أُنْفِقْ فِيهَا نَفْسِي وَمَالِي فَإِنْ أُقْتَلْ كُنْتُ مِنْ أَفْضَلِ الشُّهَدَاءِ وَإِنْ أَرْجِعْ فَأَنَا أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الْمُحَرَّرُ“The Messenger (saw) promised us the conquest of India. If I was to come across that I will spend my soul and my wealth. If I am killed then I am among the best of martyrs, and if I return then I am Abu Hurayra the freed (from sin)” [Ahmad, An-Nisa’i, Al-Hakim]
These two hadith are for you to consider and aspire for, you who grant the Nussrah to Hizb ut Tahrir for the establishment of the Khilafah, for who else will lead these noble armed forces to the conquest of India? So know that whatever sins you have earned due to your silence over these treacheries, Allah سبحانه وتعالى has also shown you the path of forgiveness.
O Allah سبحانه وتعالى be witness, for we have delivered the message.
Hizb ut Tahrir                                                                 21 October 2011 CE
Wilayah Pakistan                                                             23 Dhul-Qa’adah 1432 AH