بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Hizb ut-Tahrir / Wilayah
Pakistan has issued a Publicized Policy Position (PPP) regarding the subject of
establishing the industrial requirements for the Khilafah as the world's
leading state.
A.
Preamble: Pakistan has
been denied its industrial potential through colonialist policies imposed by
democracy and dictatorship alike
A1. Although
Pakistan has huge material resources, a young, bright and lively population and
has been included within the "next eleven" economies in the world
regarding its potential, its industry is in a pitiful state, since its
creation. The so-called industrial growth of the sixties and seventies was of
basic and simple industry, without laying the basis for heavy industry. Growth
rate of industry fell from 8.2% in 1980s to 4.8 % for the 1990s and in the
latter half of 1990s the growth was only 3.2%. In 1996/7 the growth for
industrial sector was minus 0.1%, and was 1.5% in 1999/2000. Private investment
fell from 10% to 8% during 1990s, though foreign ownership of industry has
surged, as reflected in the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) figures. Gross
fixed capital formation in private sector in the large scale manufacturing
sector fell continuously over the 1990s, by as much as 60%. And successive
rulers facilitated foreign companies in establishing industry, such as
extraction plants, refineries and power generation and taking their huge
profits abroad, whilst obstructing local private companies through requirements
such as obtaining 22 NOCs (No Objection Certificates) to install even a medium
size industry. In addition, tariff rates have fallen drastically from a maximum
of 225% in 1986 to less than 20% making it easier for Western companies to
flood our markets. So, it is not surprising today that thousands of industrial
units have been declared sick and overall local industrial production is at an
all-time low, with foreign multinational companies strengthening their hold on
our economy.
A2.
Democracy will never allow Pakistan to achieve its potential because it is what
implements the Western colonialist policies. Intent on exploiting the world
resources, colonialist powers want to keep Pakistan a state with poor industry,
unable to extract its resources by itself, devoid of heavy industry such as
engine and jet engine manufacture, dependent on import of even simple
agricultural machinery, provider of cheap light industry products for Western
markets such as electric fans, surgical equipment, hand craft and sports goods,
as well as making Pakistan’s population a huge market for Western products.
Widespread unemployment, expensive goods, dependence on the West for weapons
technology, brain drain of brilliant sons and daughters to the West are just a
few symptoms of this deeply seated colonial program. This colonialist
policy is being implemented since the time of East India Company and is
implemented today through democracy, which is just a rubber stamp for the
colonialist policies of the World Bank and IMF.
B.
Political Considerations:
Removing the locks and fetters to the industrial resurgence of the Ummah
B1. Establishment
of a powerful industry mandates a focus on military industry. America and China
are the world's foremost industrial powers because both have an orientation to
war industries, including cutting edge stealth, supercomputers and space
technologies. Germany and Japan’s pre-World War II military orientation has
benefited their industrial development until now, with their mammoth car
industries being a development of their immense tank, armored personnel and jet
engine manufacturing experience. Much of the innovation in consumer products
are byproducts of military/ space technology, including goods as mundane as
kitchen appliances, such as the Teflon on frying pans and internet systems for
regulating home appliances. However, due to colonialism, despite the fact that
Pakistan achieved nuclear weaponry, it has been denied a powerful industry,
with its armed forces dependent on military technology from belligerent
colonialist states and vital areas of its economy dependent on foreign products
and technologies, from telecommunications to engines and heavy machinery.
B2. Industry
has fluctuated between forced privatization and nationalization and both
policies have led to immense suffering. So, socialist or communist states have
advocated indiscriminate, whole-scale nationalization of industry, to address
the problem of concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. However, this
man-made narrow solution curbed the natural urge for wealth, which stimulates
responsibility and innovation. At the other extreme there is capitalism, which
advocates universal private ownership. It cares not for whether the ownership
is of resources from which the public has need and must not be deprived of or
sensitive, strategic, capital intensive industries, in which the state should
dominate. So in addition to the immense concentration of wealth in the hands of
a few capitalists, these capitalists act as lobbies to dictate foreign policy
objectives to the state, waging war on resource rich nations, such as the
Muslim countries.
B3. Research
and development and heavy industry have a co-dependent relationship, but both
are driven by the vision to be the leading state. America the world’s
superpower strove to be the world’s leading state which resulted in her
establishing a substantial heavy industry. It even sought out foreign
scientists, such as the Germans rocket engineers and established universities
to make progress in technology. America enjoys some of what the Khilafah
achieved for centuries, where the Khilafah’s universities were the favored
destination for the European elite, Arabic was the world’s language of science
and technology and the Khilafah’s industry and weaponry were the cause of awe
throughout the world. Whereas in Pakistan today, there is a huge brain drain as
intelligent well qualified individuals seek countries where their skills are of
immediate and practical use.
B4. If
seeking to be the leading state is the engine for growth of heavy industry,
such as manufacture of engine and industrial machinery, then state and private
financing are part of its fuel. Despite the immense wealth in the country,
including trillions of rupees locked away from industrial investment in banks
and stock markets, the agent rulers took loans from the colonialists with
conditions to prevent substantial local industrial development in both private
and state sectors.
C.
Legal Injunctions:
Establishing industrial might for the leading state of the world
C1. From the
first day of the return of the Khilafah, the Islamic state will strive to
become the leading state, unmatched by any rival, as it was before. Regarding industry,
it will have a military focus, which will lead to the rapid development of a
heavy industrial base
In its Introduction to the Constitution, Hizb ut-Tahrir has adopted,
Article 74, “The Department of
Industry is in charge of all the affairs connected to industry, whether heavy
industry such as the manufacturing of engines, machines, vehicles, materials
and electrical equipment, or light industry. Similarly, whether the factories
are of the public property type or they are included in the private property
and have a relationship to the military industry. All types of factories must
be established upon the basis of military policy… it is a duty upon the State to manufacture weapons
by itself and it is not allowed to depend upon other states, because this
allows other states to control it, its will, its weapons and its fighting...
This can’t be achieved unless the State possesses heavy industry and started to
build factories which produce heavy industry, both military and non-military
alike.”
C2. Regarding
the nationalization and privatization dilemma, Islam as the world’s true
revealed Deen has solved this problem from its root. Public resources such as
abundant minerals, fuel resources and energy forms such as electricity are
publicly owned. There revenue and utilization is for the entire public and the
state ensures this matter. Factories that are over public resources are also
considered public property. Such factories will neither be national or private. This would include coal, gold, copper and bauxite
extraction plants, gas refineries and electricity production plants and
distribution networks. Such public resource related factories can never be
privatized or nationalized, so private industry would benefit from cheap raw
materials and energy. In addition, that which can be privately owned cannot be
nationalized or made as a public property.
In its Introduction to the Constitution, Hizb ut-Tahrir has adopted,
in Article 138, “Factories by their
nature are private property. However, they follow the rule of the product that
they are producing. If the product is private property then the factory is
considered to be private property, such as textile factories. If the product is
public property then the factory is considered public property, such as
factories for iron ore production.” And in article 139, it is stated “The State is not permitted to transfer
private property into public property, since public property is confirmed by
the nature and characteristic of wealth and not by the opinion of the State.
Based upon this, what is called nationalisation is not from the Shari’ah in any
shape or form.” And in article 140, it is written “Every individual from the Ummah has the
right to utilise anything from public property, and it is not allowed for the
State to permit someone to individually possess or utilise it.”
In addition, there will be a
state and private partnership over many essential industries that are directly
related to military policy or closely allied with it, with the state
being in a supervisory role. The state will take it upon itself to
establish state owned heavy industry, including engine manufacture. At the same
time it will promote private factories in essential industry, by providing
grants and interest free loans, cheap energy and affordable transportation.
In its Introduction to the Constitution, Hizb ut-Tahrir has adopted,
Article 74, “Thus it is necessary that
the State has factories for producing all types of atomic weapons, rockets,
satellites, airplanes, tanks, mortars, naval ships, armored vehicles and all
types of heavy and light weapons. It is necessary that the State has factories
which produce machines, motors, materials, and electronics, and factories which
have a relation with public property and light factories which have relation
with the military or war industries.”
C3. Regarding
research and development, the state must ensure that there are facilities that
secure the Khilafah industry as being a world leader. This will involve great
investment by the state, linking industry to university research, to meet the
state’s requirements for engineers, architects, town planners, doctors,
educationalists and agricultural scientists and so on. In addition the state will
encourage private institutions to play their role in research and development.
In its Introduction to the Constitution, Hizb ut-Tahrir has adopted,
Article 162, “All individual subjects
of the State have the right to establish scientific research laboratories
connected to life issues, and the State must also establish such laboratories.”
C4. Regarding
funding of industrial development, by restoring the public properties to public
ownership and ensuring strong state ownership of essential industries, as well
as implementing other Shariah rules regarding revenues, the state will be able
to finance industrial development through the state and private sector without
dependency on other nations and their restrictive conditions. This will allow
the state to become self dependent regarding matters such as military
technology, clothing, housing, education and health. Foreign trade will be with
those countries that are not belligerent and will be undertaken in a way so as
not to strengthen them to resist the call to Islam, as ultimately Islam is to
be implemented over the entire world.
In its Introduction to the Constitution, Hizb ut-Tahrir has adopted,
Article 165, “Development and
investment by foreign funds within the State are forbidden. It is also
prohibited to grant franchises to foreigners.”
Note:
Please refer to the following articles of Hizb ut-Tahrir's Introduction to
the Constitution for the complete evidences from Quran and Sunnah: 74, 138,
139, 140, 162 and 165. To see relevant articles of the constitution for the
Khilafah state please go to this web link: http://htmediapak.page.tl/policy-matters.htm
D.
POLICY: The Khilafah as
the industrial marvel of the world
D1. A
powerful and diverse industry driven by the objective of being the world’s
leading state, with the war industry as the leading edge of industrial
development.
D2. Public
ownership of industry related to public resources, state and private ownership
of essential industries that ensure the circulation of wealth in society,
whilst maintaining optimal innovation, diversity and creativity
D3. Establishing
strong industrial research and development by the state and through the private
sector with significant state support
D4. Ending
colonialist loans with their destructive conditions, by replacing them with
Shariah based revenue generation, including public ownership of the immense
wealth such as oil and gas.
Hizb ut-Tahrir 11
Rajab, 1434 AH
Wilayah Pakistan 20
May, 2013 CE
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