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Pakistan: New Leadership New System Policy Paper |
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
For the people of Pakistan the last sixty years have been like a recurring nightmare. They have seen dictatorship before, secular democracy before, external interference and corruption before. Yet the same continued cycle of democracy, corruption, dictatorship and foreign interference continues to ravage the country. Many in western capitals, as well as those who currently head the country, see Pakistan as part of the wider ‘war on terror’. Yet, ironically for a war that claims to concern itself with ending terror, it has brought death and destruction to thousands of people in the North West Frontier of Pakistan, FATA, Balochistan, Afghanistan, and has fuelled “terror” throughout the world.
It is like Allah says in the Qur’an.
“And when it is said to them, ‘make not mischief in the earth’, they
say: ‘we are only peace-makers’. Verily, they are the ones who make
mischief but they perceive not” - [Translated Meaning Qur’an
al-Baqarah:11-12]
Our key messages are therefore simple,
• Pakistan does not need another round of dictatorship martial law,
states of emergency or the sham of secular democracy. Rather, Pakistan
must establish a true Islamic constitution. This constitution should
guarantee elections, true accountability, an independent judiciary and
a rule of law.
“Those who do not judge by what Allah has revealed, they are the oppressors” [Translated Meaning Qur’an al-Ma’idah:45]
Pakistan also needs to regain its full sovereignty over all its
affairs. At present Pakistan is a chess board for all types of foreign
interference whether it is from the United States, the United Kingdom,
the Commonwealth or the IMF.
• Pakistan needs to establish an Islamic society that is vibrant,
forward looking, which is technologically proficient and which embraces
all its citizens irrespective of their gender, sect, religion or race.
• Pakistan needs to urgently tackle its chronic domestic problems of
corruption, law and order and economic malaise. Only radical solutions
from Islam solve such problems not the cosmetic secular solutions
provided by the current ruling elite.
The Prophet (SAW) said: “Whoever cheats is not of us” (Tirmidhi).
• Lastly Pakistan needs to chart own independent course in foreign
policy, not be a conduit for the United States. Pakistan’s future lies
as part of a unified Muslim world that constitutes a quarter of the
world’s population, who control key strategic waterways and who sit on
a majority of the world’s energy reserves. Only a unified Muslim world
can confront the challenges that will emerge in the 21st century from
the United States, the EU, Russia, India and China.
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