By Asmatullah Sarwan
For the past eighty years, a large anti-Islam, non-Muslim project under the name of Pakistan has been active in the occupied territories of India and Afghanistan, with all its operations carried out directly or indirectly by the United States. Pakistan emerged in the first half of the twentieth century, at a time when Britain was facing defeat and withdrawal in India, and when there was a growing aspiration among Indian Muslims to establish an Islamic state.
Fearing that, after their departure, Indian Muslims might establish an Islamic state and system on the Indian subcontinent, the British, through a political conspiracy orchestrated with the help of the Muslim League and secret collaborators, created the slogan “What does Pakistan mean? La ilaha illallah” under the guise of preserving Islamic belief and identity. In reality, this maneuver deprived Muslims of a genuine Islamic system, one that could only be achieved through sacrifices and martyrdom.
Even at the time of Pakistan’s creation, many religious scholars opposed its establishment. They regarded the claims of the Muslim League’s secular leaders, about establishing an Islamic system and granting Muslims full authority, as empty slogans designed to mislead the Muslim population, since most of the League’s leaders were secular in both social and political outlook.
This is precisely the reason why the Pakistani regime lacks any genuine Islamic or national legitimacy. The founders of Pakistan, particularly Muhammad Ali Jinnah, were disciples and proponents of secular ideology. How can a secular mindset truly represent a Muslim population? And how can one expect the creation of a genuine Islamic state under such secular leadership?
From its inception until the time of American military interventions in Muslim countries, the Pakistani regime was recognized both domestically and across the Islamic world as an Islamic state sympathetic to Muslims. However, the reality of the Pakistani regime has become clear to every Muslim due to its anti-Islam policies, full-scale direct support for American invasions against Muslims in the Islamic world, brutal bombings of tribal areas at home, destruction of mosques and religious schools, assassinations of respected scholars, and the ongoing intolerable actions against innocent Muslims, including killings, imprisonments, and desecration of Islamic symbols.
Although the Pakistani regime was secular in its very structure from the beginning, it was initially cautious and restrained toward the beliefs, religion, and values of the Muslim populations in the region, and from a security standpoint, the country was comparatively more stable than it is today.
However, when the rulers of the Pakistani regime were required to align with the joint interests of the U.S. and Britain and to extract greater benefits from the region, the political compass of Pakistan shifted in the same direction as U.S. policies. This profound change in policy, contrary to historical, geographical, ideological, and cultural realities, represents the core point of all Pakistan’s problems.
The Pakistani regime has always sided with non-Muslim powers against Muslims and actively assisted them. At their direction, it has shed Muslim blood and destroyed Muslim homelands and homes. Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have maintained deep and enduring ties with the U.S. CIA and Israel’s Mossad, providing assistance in the training of personnel, information exchange, and various forms of collaboration.
To understand the reality of the Pakistani regime, one does not need to consult historical books, because the entire eighty-year history of this regime has been witnessed firsthand by Muslims. Yet, to illustrate this undeniable truth, here are a few examples for the readers.
2001 U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan:
After the Soviet invasion was expelled, the true Islamic fighters established a genuine Islamic system in Afghanistan under the banner of the Islamic Emirate, becoming the final stronghold and hope for awakening and uniting Muslims worldwide. For Muslims across the globe, long deprived of a complete Islamic system, this was a divine blessing from Allah. It inspired them to pursue the establishment of Islamic systems in their own countries and consciously seek liberation from the oppressive control of non-Muslim powers.
The United States, which had occupied many Muslim regions and exploited their natural resources for its own illegitimate gains, perceived the positive influence of the IEA as a serious threat to its interests and dominance. First, it imposed harsh sanctions and used its propaganda machinery to weaken and defame the IEA. Then, through a puppet regime on the IEA’s borders, it invaded Afghanistan, overthrew the Islamic system, and deprived Muslims of a true benefactor.
The Pakistani regime handed over its airspace and bases to U.S. control. A widely cited fact today is that over fifty-seven thousand bombings from Pakistani territory were carried out on Afghan soil.
Additionally, Pakistan’s intelligence networks captured hundreds of mujahideen from the IEA alive and handed them over to the U.S. for a few dollars. They arrested and tortured the Emirate’s envoys, executed dozens of its leaders, and some remain missing to this day. Pakistani intelligence also guided U.S. forces to Afghan supply routes, weapon depots, and strategic locations, targeting and eliminating them.
Moreover, until the very last day of the U.S. occupation, Pakistan’s roads served as safe corridors for transporting American weapons and supplies. I can state with full confidence that without the Pakistani regime’s assistance, U.S. forces would never have set foot on Afghan soil. The destruction of the Islamic system in Afghanistan and the spilling of innocent Afghan blood for twenty years was primarily facilitated by the Pakistani regime.
The Pakistani regime’s record of killing Muslims is extensive. In the 1970s, during the conflict between Palestinians and Israel, when the U.S.-backed Jordanian regime carried out brutal military operations against Palestinian refugees, more than 35,000 innocent Palestinian Muslims were massacred. The operation was led by a Pakistani military contingent under Brigadier Zia-ul-Haq, who later became the head of the Pakistani regime.
One fact that emerges from studying the Pakistani regime is that it consistently promotes those whose hands are stained with Muslim blood, who are merciless toward Muslims, loyal and obedient to non-Muslim powers, and experienced in unlawful killings and atrocities.
1971: Pakistani Regime’s Atrocities and the Liberation of Bengal
From 1947 to 1971, Pakistan included, in addition to its current territory, a distant eastern region called Bengal, whose majority population was Muslim. From the very beginning, the oppression and misrule of the Pakistani regime sowed hatred and a desire for freedom among Bengal’s Muslims.
Under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Muslims of Bengal peacefully demanded their rights from the Pakistani regime, but this inexperienced, unrepresentative, and corrupt regime always viewed every legitimate demand as rebellion. It responded with killings, torture, and imprisonment, aiming to suppress the Muslims of Bengal through fear and violence.
Ultimately, the Muslims of Bengal rose against the oppression of the Pakistani regime. Pakistan launched continuous heavy bombardments, yet despite fierce resistance, tens of thousands of cowardly Pakistani soldiers were captured by the Bengali Muslims, while many others were killed. This marked a humiliating defeat for the Pakistani regime and led to the creation of an independent country, Bangladesh, by the Bengalis.
The countless atrocities of the Pakistani regime cannot be fully captured in a single article, the killing of principled scholars, the elimination and disappearance of community leaders, mass and individual killings of civilians, and firing on peaceful demonstrations were routine actions. Anyone who dared to demand their rights from the Pakistani regime often paid the ultimate price with their lives.
The faith-selling scholars, unscrupulous politicians, and murderous mercenary army of the Pakistani regime are the relentless enemies of Muslims and the ones responsible for decades of bloodshed and wounds. If the army is the hand that spills Muslim blood, then the scholars and politicians are the ones who justify, nurture, and betray it. Together, they are the different faces of this anti-Islamic project.
Currently, the Pakistani regime is facing its most severe and challenging stage in eighty years. Its internal political crisis has reached a peak, the army is repeatedly defeated by popular movements, its morale and spirit are crushed, it is internationally discredited, economically crippled, and unable to pay its troops and officials. Due to its anti-Islamic policies, the people are angry and mobilized. Popular movements are gaining strength day by day. All activists and movements must unite under a single leadership and vision to confront the Pakistani regime and deliver the final decisive blows to this Pharaoh-like authority in its dying days.
The struggle against the Pakistani regime is, from an Islamic perspective, a pure, sacred effort that earns the pleasure of Allah. Whoever turns away from this struggle is either someone who feeds on the money flowing from the enemies to support the Pakistani regime’s bloodshed, or a sleeping, ignorant person deaf to the truth, incapable of distinguishing right from wrong.
The Pharaonic tyranny and anti-Islamic policies of the Pakistani military regime cannot be justified by any faith-selling, nominal, or conscienceless scholars twisting religion with their sharp tongues. The popular movements, awakened by fear of the erasure of Islamic belief, identity, and culture under the regime’s oppression, cannot be discredited or neutralized by these dark fatwas.
Every muslim of sound mind, awakened conscience, and pure integrity sees the struggle against the Pakistani regime as a primary duty and the highest priority of life.