Following in his mother's footsteps Bilawal Bhutto is studying at Oxford where he will be well groomed to take up the banner of western democratic values in Pakistani politics when he finishes his studies! However, the track record of democracy in Pakistan is a disasterous one, characterised by a corrupt feudal politics that exploits the poor and rewards the riich, land owning and industrial classes.  Furthermore these "democratic dynasties" have perpetuated sectarianism throughout Pakistan bringing nothing but misery to the vast majority of its citizens. Successive democratic governments including those of Benazir Bhutto have comprehensively failed to allieviate poverty or to develop civil institutions allowing ordinary people to benefit from the basic elements of justice and the rule of law. In addition, the corrupt secular values associated with democratic systems brings with it a culture that conflicts with the Islamic values held by the vast majority of Pakistani Muslims who yearn for the implementation of the Shariah!

It is high time that the Muslims of Pakistan reject wholesale the brand of politics and twisted democratic ideals of the PPP, PML-N and PML-Q and look towards a new Islamic leadership and system that will restore security, independence and unity to a country that has been fractured by decades of secular governance either in the form of military dictators or corrupt democratic parties.  Hizb ut Tahrir calls upon all sincere Pakistani leaders to reject the failed politics of the past and to work to implement Islam through the re-etablishment of a new Khilafah.

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