Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain is initiating a mass action campaign to call upon the Muslims of Pakistan to rise up and remove President Musharraf and replace his system with the Islamic Khilafah [Caliphate]. The campaign will be launched at Friday prayers on 17 September where the Muslim community will be urged to call for an end to Musharraf’s continued subservience to the Bush regime. The aptly named “Stop Busharraf” campaign will culminate in a massive demonstration to Pakistan’s High Commission in Central London on Saturday 9th October.

Nadeem Khan, the organiser of the campaign, said, “Musharraf has dutifully carried out Bush’s demands – he has sold out over Kashmir, has permitted American forces to establish bases in Pakistan, has legitimised the occupation of Iraq, has provided logistical support and intelligence to US forces in Afghanistan and has surrendered control over Pakistan’s economy to multinationals. It seems that Musharraf is the first Pakistani leader to sacrifice all of Pakistan’s strategic resources to get an American President re-elected.”

Dr Imran Waheed, a UK based doctor and the Representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said, “Only the re-establishment of the Islamic Khilafah [Caliphate] will stop Busharraf, end Pakistan’s subservience to foreign colonialist powers and unify the vast armies and resources of the Muslim world into a single state. Hizb ut-Tahrir can see the Khilafah on the horizon - it calls upon Muslims, particularly the people of power and influence, to remove the weak Musharraf and establish the Islamic Khilafah.”

The campaign will also see hundreds of thousands of English and Urdu leaflets and petitions distributed throughout the UK exploring the extent of Musharraf’s betrayal. The Muslim community will also be encouraged to campaign by writing to newspapers, discussing on the Internet and contributing to radio and TV phone-ins. Advertisements will also appear in newspapers and on satellite television.

ABOUT HIZB UT-TAHRIR

Hizb ut-Tahrir is an independent Islamic political party. The party works throughout the Islamic world, including Pakistan, to resume the Islamic way of life by re-establishing the Islamic Khilafah [Caliphate]. The party adheres to Islamic law in all aspects of its work and considers violence or armed struggle against the regime, as a method to re-establish the Islamic State, to be forbidden by Islamic law. In the Western world, the party seeks to explain the Islamic ideology to Muslims, to create a dialogue with Western thinkers and to present a positive image of Islam to Western society.

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