Press Release
(Independence Day) The Seventy-Eighth
Pakistan Will Gain Its Independence by Establishing the Rightly Guided Caliphate According to the Method of Prophethood
(Translated)
Under the current international system, so-called independence is nothing but a staged play. True liberation can only be achieved when the state organizes its internal affairs and external relations according to its principle. A people who truly believe in La Ilaha Illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah will not be liberated unless they implement the Islamic system in governance, economy, society, education, and judiciary in their land, along with a foreign policy based on Da'wah and Jihad. This is the true meaning of independence; therefore, Pakistan has not yet been liberated!
A quick look at Pakistan's main policies is enough to prove that. Isn't Pakistan's policy towards Jerusalem and Gaza formulated in the US Central Command, the Pentagon, and the US State Department? Isn't its policy towards Kashmir based on begging to attract Trump's attention, even though we showed practically just a few months ago the ability to liberate it directly? Was Pakistan's policy towards Afghanistan designed by our Foreign Ministry, or by agents of the US State Department and military leaders of the Central Command? Don't prime ministers shamelessly declare that they will seek permission from the International Monetary Fund to lower electricity prices? Don't Pakistan's courts still issue their rulings based on English common law? Didn't the Pakistani army chief recently travel to the United States to attend the retirement ceremony of (his direct commander), General Corella? What kind of independence is this, where we cannot wage war for Kashmir or Gaza, but we are ready to fight in America's wars?
Pakistan is one of the seven declared nuclear powers in the world. Five of these powers control different regions of the world and shape its affairs according to their own interests. France and Britain control European politics; America applies its dictates around the world; Russia is rooted in Eastern Europe; and China is steadily expanding its sphere of influence. As for the Hindu state, it is working hard to become the policeman of this region. So where does Pakistan stand in this equation? America can conclude a nuclear agreement with Iran and cancel it, and renew it whenever it wants, yet we cannot even conclude an oil purchase agreement with Iran! Why? What kind of independence is this?
O officers and soldiers of the Pakistani armed forces: The obstacle to Pakistan's true independence and liberation is not a lack of resources, nor a lack of enthusiasm, courage, and competence among our soldiers or people. Our real crisis is a leadership that lacks vision, a leadership that must be removed and replaced with a principled leadership that is given the Pledge of Victory, so that it can establish the Rightly Guided Caliphate in Pakistan. This is the correct definition of true independence, and you have the great responsibility to achieve it, and to lead Pakistan to this goal. Hizb ut-Tahrir stands before you with a principled vision, and offers you an integrated program and project. So come, on the seventy-eighth (Independence Day), and put on the garment of true independence, reject this colonial international system, and build, under the banner of La Ilaha Illa Allah Muhammad Rasul Allah, a new world order.
﴿And this is My path, which is straight, so follow it; and do not follow [other] ways, for they will separate you from His way. This has He instructed you that you may become righteous.﴾
The Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir
in Wilayah Pakistan