Pakistan

Banned outfit: Noose tightens on Hizb activists

Security agencies have started moving against activists of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir outfit.

Qaiser Butt June 24, 2011

ISLAMABAD:

Security agencies have started moving against activists of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir outfit, sources told The Express Tribune on Thursday.

Many of the activists have gone underground after raids on their houses in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

The arrests are said to have been made both before and after the detention of Brigadier Ali Khan and four army majors earlier this week, for suspected links with the Hizb.

The Hizb’s cadre, comprising professionals like engineers, doctors and educated youth, had been distributing leaflets, brochures and pasting stickers in public places calling for action over the past month.

The Hizb also launched a similar campaign when the US called for a full-scale military assault on North Waziristan, urging the people to resist. The HT kept in touch with media outlets via SMS
on the terrorist attack on
the PNS Mehran in Karachi, accusing the US of masterminding the attack.

It regularly issued press releases urging people to “topple the government (and clear it) of traitors, conspirators and the American agents”.

The organisation also organised rallies “for establishing the rule of Khilafah in Pakistan and other parts of the Muslim world”.

Meanwhile, a press release issued by the Hizb said that officials of a secret agency had “kidnapped” two of its activists named Naeem Younas and Fahad from Rawalpindi last week. Naeem was arrested distributing a leaflet on the Abbottabad incursion, while Fahad was arrested from his house in the Bahria Town.

“(Plainclothesmen) took Younas, a telecom engineer to an unknown location,” the press release said.

Security officials, the Hizb said, started rounding up its people after it issued a pamphlet on the US raid in Abbottabad in which Osama bin Laden was killed.

According to the Hizb, it has filed a writ petition against the kidnapping of its activists and it plans to hold demonstration in Islamabad at Zero Point outside the press offices.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 24^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (21)

Abu Salahudeen | 13 years ago | Reply

As salaamu alaikum wr wb, Dear respected brothers in Islam, I think it is obvious to all muslims living in Pakistan, that the godless system of so called secular democracy has failed us! the evidence is looking at us - who respects pakistani governance or the authorities?? all we have are recycled leaders, dictators, lackeys or the west! What HuT is calling for is not a figment of their imagination or idealism or even their idea! it is simply the way of Islam - if we are Muslims in both name and belief - we must accept that only Islam can direct us to success and Jannah inshaAllah!!

correction to some comments from above - as we know people will always have an ulterior motive and will make up things to discredit both Islamic ideas and aspirations.

HuT is not militant or linked to Al Qaeda - not substantiated globally - read their articles HuT is not violent, and seeks to disseminate Islamic ideas to create change - read their articles! HuT method is based on the sunnah of the Prophet SAW, supported by many world renowned scholars in Islam HuT method is governance based on elected positions, strong accountability, justice. HuT is a group calling for unity and does not espouse hatred for muslims/islam HuT is not full of fanatics rather they are academics, professors, teachers, scientists,and yes even part of the military! HuT is truely a global islamic political party - see the indonesian conferences on youtube

Just read from hizb.org.uk or khilafah.com khilafah.eu

JazakAllah for reading!

From a Secondary School teacher in the UK who aspires to able to emigrate to Pakistan one day inshaAllah to educate the Muslim Ummah so we can rise one day again as a superpower as we did in the past!!

Norman Mann | 13 years ago | Reply Well it appears that this mob of fools are well and truly entrenced in our country, making threats that are so like them. Let me say tho, that these interlectually handicapped, (idiots) are so full of hate, yet they will use the freedom, as well as the free housing, free medical, free centrelink payments, not having to work to support themseves, the list of goodies is endless, granted to them because we ARE a free country, bought with the blood of our defence forces, and these parasites would threaten us? Well the answer is easy, send these cowardly mongrels back to their own miserable countries, and fight for their own feedom, of course that wont happen because it is much easier to kill our women and kids, as long as they are not looking of course, because these hate filled fools are mongrels. In the name of their God?? What a joke. If they start with their bloody stupidity here in Australia, we will demand of our government that they are deported immediately, no trial no sueing us, no excuses, just get put on a boat and sent back to whence they come from. Listen you arsewipes, do not let one Ozzie die at your gutless hands, or you will see just what makes Australia proud to be just that, Australian. And try and remember, but of course you have to have a brain to think with, that the freedom you are trying to destroy is not your ticket at all. So perhaps it might be in your own interests to re-think your utter stupidity.

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Ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply In Pakistan it all starts with IJT in colleges. The really crazy ones who were in Thundersquad or are used to gun carrying goons to terrify people join TTP, LEJ, LET among other outfits. The others like the nazims or real extreme religious fanatics join organization like Hizb. And the cowards and manipulators who are left behind join Jamaat e Islami.Hizb and Jamaat are as dangerous as TTP or LET. As soon as TTP or LET kill some one , these organization who used to blame RAW or MQM (if happened in Karachi) now blame CIA. These lies give cover to the real terrorists and killers like TTP. Remember the killings of SunniTehrik leaders. Within a few minutes of the killing Hezb and Jamaat blamed MQM. Only when the Police traced the killers (suicide bombers) to Taliban and Taliban run Seminaries did Jamaat shut up.I feel pity for the bloggers who support Hizb or calls them true muslims. I think have extremist tendencies and are filled with hate. I do not believe in people being jailed before due process. but we need to jail every Jamaati or Hizb worker who blames the wrong party for murders committed by terrorist under anti terrorism laws for aiding terrorists. Pakistanis should feel good. Our exports are growing, our foreign exchange reserves are high, our remittances are great. We should just reduce some military expenditures and have China invest in our infrastructure and we invest in secular (non-hateful) education with emphasis on science and math.

Moise | 13 years ago | Reply Banned for what? Changing the corrupt system?

Asim | 13 years ago | Reply @rashid: I would suggest you read up the definition of the word 'irony' before you start commenting provide facts before you call for the killing of others. You sound like a barbarian.

abdullah | 13 years ago | Reply O ppl of pakistan! use ur intellect. u r in the trap of america. get rid of this trap. Democracy has failed to ensure ur basic rights. Only khilafah can ensure ur basic rights and save u frm destruction.

Tariq | 13 years ago | Reply Yea right, all of a sudden the Pakistan Security Forces get the message. These guys are all responsible, they only fight with pakistan and not with anyone else, they should all be prosecuted for treason

Maulana Diesel | 13 years ago | Reply Pakistani Government should TAKE NO PRISONERS!

Bangash | 13 years ago | Reply HT is a foreign organization, their foreign activists should be deported from Pakistan.

khan from jeddah | 13 years ago | Reply It takes less than a minute to wind a clock, but it takes 24 hours for the clock to unwind itself... things can't happen overnight... it will take a generation to clean up the mess we are in and to put our house in order...

Cautious | 13 years ago | Reply The list of Pakistan militant groups is large enough that one needs a playbook to keep track - one wonders what this group did to warrant the attention of the govt -- one wonders why the govt has allowed any of these militant groups to get as strong as they are? Why not get rid of all the militant groups - might help improve the image of Pakistan and provide some much needed stability.

Sajad | 13 years ago | Reply @rashid: Where is your proof Hizb Ut Tahrir are terrorists and are killing "our relatives" neither is Hizb taliban in disguise, it clear you have never read any of the literature of the hizb, did you not read all the leaflets saying attacks and killing of civilians is forbidden in Islam? obviously not, first read then accuse.

R S JOHAR | 13 years ago | Reply Well, I visited HT website and found that this outfit is more dangerous than any other militant organisation in Pakistan. HT is posing to be moderate, using systematic and religious ideology to incite young military officers to revolt against their seniors and no wonder many appeared to have fallen to this flowery propaganda. This website should be removed and its activists jailed since it can cause major disaster for Pakistan.

yasir | 13 years ago | Reply So they think they will stop the caliphate?

Bambayyyaa | 13 years ago | Reply Time will tell if the authorities are really cracking on them... They dont have guts to do so ... as they themselves dont know howmany men in uniform are members of the same group...

Atif | 13 years ago | Reply Rashid, Hizb has professional (read, the "literate" educated "top brass" of Pakistan)... they only have weapons of speech and pen (which is powered by Islam). I must say, "pen is proving mightier than the sword of US and their puppets." To set records straight it was a dictator (Musharraf) who banned Hizb for "voicing" against his betrayal. Even if their would be Zia in his place he may have done the same.

faraz | 13 years ago | Reply HT wants to establish an undemocratic totalitarian system where no opposition is tolerated. But now that there is democracy in Pakistan, they claim that it’s their democratic right to preach the evils of the constitution of the country. HT should establish an office in Karachi, especially the areas where target killings are common. Let them unite a city first.

rashid | 13 years ago | Reply they should be killed they are terrorists no mercy they are killing our relatives in the name of islam...............why are tthey distorting a peaceful religion? islam is peace we know it and we dont want taliban they are taliban in disguise

Nazir | 13 years ago | Reply educated professionals, engineers, doctors, professors....... literature, intellect, pamphlets, demonstrations.... voicing people's opinion to uproot traitors, anti american you kiddin me, they are terrorists =) ??

Mirza | 13 years ago | Reply Finally, it is about time. They should have done it like yesterday.

faraz | 13 years ago | Reply Basically their caliph is a military dictator! Zia part-2

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