بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Media
Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan
PRESS
STATEMENT
NO:
PR10036
Date:
23rd Jumada al-Thani 1431 AH / 6th June 2010 CE
Masses
are skinned alive to fund for the American crusade
Gilani-Zardari
government has set new standards of American boot-licking. To save their
master's economy, the government has prepared a new plan to collect money for
financing the crusader war by increasing taxes over their own people and
reducing subsidies over the foodstuff.
The
Military budget is being increased by 29 percent (Rs. 99 billion) to continue
the American crusader war in Pakistan. By imposing a "war tax" the
government will steal another 83 billion rupees from the kitty of the poor
masses.
Moreover
a cut of Rs. 102 billion is proposed by reducing subsidies to finance the
bombardment of the Muslims in the Tribal Areas. Even the high level American
official has confessed that the hard earned money of the people of Pakistan is
being used to finance the American war. The Former Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury Paul Craig Roberts confessed in his recent
column saying: "At
Washington's behest, the government of Pakistan is conducting war against its
own people, killing many and forcing others to flee their homes and lands....
Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin ordered the Pakistani government to
raise taxes to pay for the war against its own people...The puppet ruler, Asif
Ali Zardari, complied with his American master's orders." Do
these rulers still have the audacity to call this war "our war"?!
This
budget has confirmed once again that no matter if the government is democratic
or dictatorial, the budget of Pakistan is designed by the IMF according to the
capitalist principles. This is exactly the reason why the economic condition of
the masses will never improve in democracy or dictatorship, under the
Capitalist economic system.
It
is only in the Islamic economic system where all the indirect taxes like GST,
income tax, business tax, customs, excise, surcharge, additional surcharge,
petroleum development levy, etc are haram. Direct taxes are collected from the
rich while the poor are not subjected to any tax. Thus Zakat is paid by the
owner of Nisab, Kharaaj is imposed on the owner of land, Usher is collected
from the one who has the agriculture produce, Riqaz is levied on the one who
found the treasure and Jizya is collected from the non-Muslim who can pay.
Islam
has fixed taxes and the government cannot impose any tax by their own or under
the diktats of the colonial organization of the like of IMF.
Islam
only allows, in an emergency situation, the imposition of tax on the wealth
(not income) of the rich people that too is for a limited time. And the state
is not authorized to spend this amount on development expenditure.
Furthermore,
Islam declared all the oil, gas, minerals and such other resources as public
properties and these cannot be handed over to some businessmen or
multi-national companies under the guise of privatization. Moreover, it is the
duty of the state to provide these resources to all the people on which they
government cannot earn exorbitant profit.
Thus
in the Khilafah, electricity, oil and gas etc are available at a cheap and
affordable price which will help illuminate poverty. Similarly, it is the
responsibility of the Khilafah to fulfil the basic needs of the weak,
handicapped and the poor. The capitalist state has also failed like the
communist. This system failed to solve the problems of the US and EU than how
can it solve the problems of the people of Pakistan?
Let
the rulers know that their political stunts cannot hide their treachery and
befool the masses. And let the people of power know, Ummah will not agree to
anything less than Khilafah!!!
Naveed
Butt
Official
Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan
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