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My dear brothers in Islam, and I address also
that small group in the military who have been seduced and misled into atheism
and easy promotion, for even that small dissident rump I know still has a
profound loyalty to the nation of Pakistan.
All that is happening now I told you would happen. I warned you. Now you must
face up to this. It was a diagnosis and you rejected the medicine, and now the
patient is in a critical condition. I told you the dictator Musharraf was a
kemalist, and the role of the kemalist was never to turn the guns on the enemy,
but to turn them on his own people if they defy the dictatorship. It has
happened. There are two civilised and learned bodies within the State of
Pakistan. This fundamentally stupid and brutal man has now actively made war on
both these groups.
It is clear that Pakistani society can no longer function now that it has lost
the judiciary and the ‘ulema. Unless we are to see this great Muslim nation
plunge into that most hateful of conditions, a civil war, military intervention
is absolutely necessary. Make no mistake. I do not mean further war between the
army and the people. This crime has already been committed, and the damage – the
lack of trust between army and people – can only be recovered by one thing. You
know what that one thing is. That one thing is the removal of an unacceptable
dictator at war with his own people and their religion.
The quite disgraceful signals of approval from the Washington regime are surely
the final confirmation of what an evil action was perpetrated at the mosque.
Moral approval from the man who ordered Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo is a terrible
insult, and furthermore, the American people should beware. A regime that
accepts that a country abroad can make war on its own people sooner or later
will activate it inside its own frontiers.
The removal of the criminal dictator, after such a disastrous error, means it is
advised not just to replace him with a uniquely military junta. Confidence in
the people has to be restored. I recommend the following model as a means to
restoring not only order but civil confidence. The officers removing the
criminal author of the coup should immediately call upon the highest civilian
talents as an Advisory Group who can steer the country back to legal government.
For example:
1. The deposed Chief Justice I. M. Chaudhry.
2. Maulana Sami’ul Haqq.
3. Imran Khan.
4. The deposed Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif.
5. Retired General Hamid Gul.
These, or a similarly constituted small group, should reconstruct the social
order so that Pakistan ceases to be a plaything of exterior imperialist forces,
or a war zone for the suicidal extremist Arab movement outrageously killing
under the banner of Islam.
The survival of Pakistan is in your hands. Your health and well-being is also in
your hands, for there is no doubt that if Pakistan goes down, you will go down
with it, and if you do not die in its anarchy you will survive in your ignominy.
Rise before Fajr. Make two Raka’ats. An Istikhara. Then if you dare, do nothing!
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