THOUSANDS OF UK MUSLIMS CALL ON PAKISTAN’S ARMY TO OVERTHROW MUSHARRAF

[Truth Seeker]

London, UK, October 9 – Thousands of Muslims from all over the UK have marched from London’s Hyde Park to the Pakistani High Commission in Knightsbridge. The demonstration was the culmination of the “Stop Busharraf†campaign, organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, to urge UK Muslims to add their voice to the growing chorus of voices calling for an end to Musharraf’s continued subservience to the Bush regime.

 

Demonstrators presented a letter to the Pakistan High Commissioner, Maleeha Lodhi, demanding that she publicly respond to the demands of UK Muslims for the removal of Musharraf and the replacement of his system with the Islamic Khilafah [Caliphate]. The letter also demanded that she end her recent campaign of intimidation of Pakistani journalists that aims to ensure that no criticism of the Musharraf regime and his pro-US policies is made. It also called for an end to the harassment and imprisonment by the Musharraf regime of journalists, politicians, lawyers, businessmen, army officers and Islamic activists.

 

Shaban ul-Haq, a leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, told demonstrators in Hyde Park, “We remind the Major Generals of the Pakistan Army of their great responsibility to remove Musharraf, establish the Islamic Khilafah and make Pakistan the fortress of Islam. We also remind them that the recent removal of Corp Commanders in the middle of their tenure reveals the true colours of America and her servant Musharraf. Musharraf intends on weakening the army, so that the army does not pose a threat to America’s colonialist ambitions for Pakistan.â€

 

Dr Imran Waheed, a UK based doctor and the Representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said, “Thousands of Muslims in the heart of the West have issued a resounding call to Pakistan’s people of power and influence, in particular the Pakistan Army, to remove the weak Musharraf and establish the Khilafah. The Islamic Khilafah is on the horizon and the Musharraf regime will soon be consigned to the history books. A brave general is all that is now needed to create this change.â€

 

“Only the Islamic Khilafah will end Pakistan’s subservience to foreign colonialist powers and unify the vast armies and resources of the Muslim world into a single state.â€

 

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Notes to Editors:

 

Hi-res photos of the demonstration are available from the campaign website: www.stopbusharraf.com

 

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.

 

CONTACT:

Imran Waheed – Media Representative

Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain

Email: imran.waheed@hizb-ut-tahrir.org.uk

Phone: 07074-192400 [+44(0)7800-548843 from outside the UK]