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Name of
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Hizb ut-Tahrir
Pakistan (HuT) |
Formation |
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HuT was
established in 1952 in Jerusalem as a Sunni Muslim
political organization by Taqiuddin- al Nabhani (a
religious scholar and a session judge from Palestine)
with the aim of uniting all the Muslim states in the
world by forming a Khilafat (caliphate) that would be
run under the Islamic Shariah Law. HuT, since its
inception has spread to more than 40 different countries
including US, UK and Pakistan. HuT Pakistan was formally
established in Pakistan during the year 2000 by Imtiaz
Malik.
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Leadership |
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Imtiaz
Malik
A British born
Pakistani, Imtiaz was the founder as well as the
underground leader of HuT in Pakistan for a very long
period. He was sent along with nine other members of the
HuT (UK) in 1990s (no information regarding the other
nine leaders is available) to Pakistan in order to
establish HuT Pakistan. Current status and whereabouts
of Imtiaz Malik are unknown.
Naveed
Butt
The
official spokesperson of the group, Naveed is a scholar
and an activist. He spent his early life in Islamabad,
Pakistan and later moved to US (University of Illinois,
Chicago) from where he completed his graduation in
electrical engineering. It is believed; he joined the
HuT while studying in US. Naveed is considered as the
face of the HuT Pakistan. In May 2012, Naveed was picked
up by intelligence agencies of Pakistan on suspicion of
inciting violence in the country. He has been missing
since then.
Imran Yousafzai
Prominent
leader of HuT Pakistan, Imran hails from Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province. He was also picked up by the
intelligence in 2012 and his whereabouts are currently
unknown. Moreover, no other information related to Imran
is available.
Shehzad Sheikh
Deputy spokesman of HuT Pakistan and the main recruiter
of the party in Karachi. No more information is
available.
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School of
Thought |
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Islam - Sharia (Islamic Law)
Sharia which is the body of Islam is actually "way" or
"path". It is the lawful skeleton within which the both
the public and private aspects of life are monitored for
those following Islam as their religion. Sharia deals
with all aspects of day-to-day life,including politics,
economics, banking, business law, contract law,
sexuality, and social issues. There is not a strictly
codified uniform set of laws that can be called Sharia.
It is more like a system of several laws, based on the
Qur'an, Hadith and centuries of debate, interpretation
and precedent. Organizations like HuT have made changes
to the original Shariah Law and have come up with their
own interpretations (a much rigid and radical one).
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Structure of
the Organization |
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HuT has a
massive network and it operates in more than 50
countries worldwide including US, UK, Russia, Germany,
Turkey, Bangladesh, Australia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and
etc. They claim to have more than one million members
globally. They do not have any offices in Pakistan
because of security concerns. Therefore, Pakistan’s
affairs are handled from different other countries. HuT
dejects the phenomenon of ‘leaders’ within the group and
all members enjoy the same status. An interesting fact
is most of the members know a very little about other
members of the group. The members are given different
assignments and they are bound to follow it.
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Financial Resources |
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The financial
operations of the organization are rather unknown.
However according to a source, they acquire their
funding mostly from contributions and donations from
their Middle Eastern and UK’s branches. It is believed
that HuT’s headquarter in London, UK raises most of the
group’s financial funding. For more information
regarding their sources
click here
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Status |
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Proscribed and active.
The organization has been proscribed in most of the
countries where it operates. In Pakistan, the HuT was
Proscribed in 2004 by the Country’s President at that
time General Pervaiz Musharraf.
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Recruitment
tools & demographics |
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HuT’s
recruitment developments are primarily aimed at students
and middle class professionals. Moreover, HuT also
targets the frustrated youth and Muslim immigrants in
different countries that have lost their faith in the
system in which they subside and ones that share
anti-Western sentiments.
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Ideology |
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HuT aims at
establishing Khilafat (caliphate) and abolishing
democratic system in Muslim countries such as Pakistan.
For detailed
information
click here
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Areas of
Operation |
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HuT operates
in 40-50 countries worldwide. These include Middle
Eastern, South Asian, EU and Central Asian countries.
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Linkages |
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While HuT
Pakistan has no links with any other terrorist party,
the International HuT is accused of having ties with
terrorist groups operating in different countries. Names
of those terrorist organizations are unknown.
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Tools |
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Print Media:
HuT is very
active when it comes to print media. They have
magazines, books, pamphlets leaflets, open letters and
etc. All of the mentioned are being used by the
organization to spread its message to its followers.
Their two prominent magazines are:
• Khilafat Magazine
• Nussrah Magazine.
Their prominent and renowned books include
• The role of Muslim Women in Re-establishing the
Khilafah
• The Economic System in Islam, the Social System in
Islam.
Khilafat
Magazines Issues
[Download]
To download
various articles & publications
click here
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Audio / Video:
LeT use audios and videos to spread their messages to
their followers. These audios and videos are available
on their websites.
Download
videos:
Video 1
Video 2
Social Media:
HuT is active on social media. It has pages on Facebook
and account on Twitter that is monitored by the group
members.
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Khilafah.Movement.Pakistan
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/HTmediaPAK
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web site |
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Websites:
With the help of various websites, HuT not only spreads
it message to its educated followers but also recruits
its members. Some of their websites are namely:
http://www.hizb-ut-tahrir.info/info/
http://www.khilafat.dk/
http://www.hizb-pakistan.com/hizb/
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Name
Variations |
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No known name
variations of Hizb ut-Tahrir exist.
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Who they are
Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT)
is an extremist, international pan-Islamic political group which aims at
uniting all Muslims in the world under one political entity, ruled by its
own interpretation of Shariah (in short, establishment of caliphate in many
countries including Pakistan). According to their own interpretation of
Shariah, "Every male Muslim, fifteen years and over, is obliged to undergo
military training in readiness for jihad and non-Muslims are enemies of
Muslims and should be attacked and wiped out even if they don’t initiate the
attack". While the organization is not directly linked to any violent cases
in different countries over the years, it is believed to have some kind of
connection with them.
With branches in
over forty countries, including both Islamic and Western countries, HuT does
not refrain from using violence to achieve its goals and that is what makes
it a dangerous organization. Hizb ut Tahrir is seen as a major threat to the
state or even as a terrorist group. HuT rejects the democratic system of
Government and therefore one of the objectives of HuT is also to fight
against colonialism and to free the Muslim Ummah from the west’s political
and economic systems. It wants to impose the Caliphate in almost 45
countries. HuT was established In Pakistan in early 2000s by Imtiaz Malik
and since then it has been trying to cement its foot in the country. Hizbut
Tahrir focuses on a six points agenda under the system of Caliphate:
• Economic
Reform
• Justice Reform
• Foreign Policy
• Good Governance
• Social Justice
• Education
It has been proscribed in most of the countries it is operating and in 2004
it was also banned in Pakistan for showing dissatisfaction on the policies
of the government, distributing leaflets against the unacceptable policies
all across the country
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History
HuT was formed
in Jerusalem in 1953 by Taqiuddin an-Nabhani (a religious scholar and an
appeal court judge in the Shariah court in Jerusalem), with a goal to
establish an expansionist super-state they would describe the Khilafah
(caliphate). A similar organization was established in Egypt in 1928 by
former associate of Muslim Brotherhood, however according to Nabhani the
Brotherhood with time had turned too compliant in its ideology and therefore
Nabhani went on to set up the more radical HuT in 1953. Nabhani considered
capitalism and democracy as kufr (apostasy), which to date remains a basic
principle of HT’s ideology, and declared that Islam and Non-Muslims could
not coexist. He set out the goal for HuT to fuse all Muslims of the world
under one political entity governed by his interpretation of Shariah.
Initially in 1950s, HuT’s political
activities were mostly limited to Jordan, the West Bank and Lebanon,
however, the fame of the party enhanced in other Middle Eastern countries in
the 1960s. This increase in the popularity was followed by HuT erecting
military coups in the early 1970s in a failed bid to clutch authority in
Syria, Iraq and Jordan. The failure of the coup led to the defamation of the
organization and loss of support in the Middle East and this caused most of
the leaders and members of the group to move to Europe and set up the
organization there. In no time, HuT gathered support from Muslim migrants
living in different parts of Europe. After the fall of the Soviet Union, HuT
also made inroads into Central Asia in the latter half of the 1990s.
HuT Pakistan was formed
during1990’s by Imtiaz Malik. It was formally established in Pakistan during
the year 2000. Imtiaz Malik himself and other leaders of the organization
laid the basis of this organization in Lahore and Karachi. They held first
national level conference in Lahore during 2003. After 3 days of this
conference, the organization was banned by the Pakistani government.
Organization's Message
The organization
aims at setting up an Islamic Caliphate all over the world.
Target Audience
The target
audiences of the group are educated people and professionals like
journalists, teachers, bureaucrats, engineers. HuT recruits students from
prominent universities as well. They are spreading their ideology via
mobiles, twitter, Facebook, and websites. They are using the print and
electronic media very affectively.
Tools
THizb ut-Tahrir
has a number of tools which include the print media and social media as
well.
The Print Media includes –magazines, Khilafah magazine, Nussrah Magazine and
other books.
Books- The role of Muslim Women in Re establishing Khilafah, The Economic
System in Islam, The Social System in Islam etc.
All of this is available on
http://www.hizb-pakistan.com/
Social Media includes twitter account https://twitter.com/HTmediaPAK and
Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Khilafah.Movement.Pakistan
This website is available in 5 languages i:e English, Urdu, Arabic, Turkish
and Deutsch. Content available on this website is given below:
• Dawah News
• Leaflets
• Hizbut Tahrir
• Multimedia
• Magazines
• Articles
Download complete detail of tools used by Hisb - ut - Tehrir
here.
Splinter Groups
N/A
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References:
http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_1601_1650/roots_of_democracy_in_islam.htm |
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