Pakistan's Deadly Priorities Are Upside Down: Kill Muslims But Turn a Blind Eye to the Zionist Crusaders Attacking its Neighbor

News:

On 1 March 2026, Aljazeera reported that at least nine people were killed in Pakistan as crowds tried to storm the US consulate and security forces fired to disperse them; a hospital official said “at least nine bodies were brought to Karachi’s civil hospital” after the clash.

Comment:

Pakistan’s generals want the Ummah to believe they are guardians of “sovereignty” and “national security,” yet their actions expose a regime that polices Muslims for the benefit of Washington’s regional order. When people poured into the streets in Karachi, furious at the killing of Iran’s leader and at the US role in the war, the state answered with bullets. Pakistan did not “protect” its people; it protected the perimeter of an American fortress on Pakistani soil, and it did so by killing Muslims who were protesting the very empire that keeps Pakistan’s elites afloat.

Days earlier, Pakistan’s military carried out air strikes inside Afghanistan, with Afghanistan’s authorities saying dozens of civilians were killed, including women and children. So, Pakistan can project violence across borders into Muslim communities, but when the US escalates a war against Iran, Pakistan’s ruling order becomes “blind” in the only way that matters: blind to confronting American power, yet sharp-eyed in suppressing Muslim anger at home.

That blindness is not accidental. Pakistan’s geopolitical shape is itself a colonial artefact designed to fracture Muslim lands into “manageable” units. The border that divides Pakistan from Afghanistan, the Durand Line (1893), was imposed as a British imperial boundary to separate British-controlled India from Afghanistan. The border that divides Pakistan from Iran, the Goldsmid Line (1870–1872), was also a British-led boundary exercise meant to secure imperial frontiers and buffer zones. These lines were not drawn to serve Muslims; they were drawn to serve the British empire, and they still function as the architecture of division that keeps Muslim peoples politically fragmented even when Islam ordered their political affairs to be united.

The same state that invokes nationalism to justify killing protesters in Karachi and bombing across the Durand Line is embedded in an American security geography that places US power right on the region’s arteries. The US Navy’s own regional command describes an operating area that includes the Gulf of Oman and the North Arabian Sea and these waters sit off Pakistan’s coastline and are in range of its weapons. Pakistan’s military leadership can posture on television, but it fails to confront the machinery of US aggression and terror that surrounds the region by sea power, air power, bases, and client regimes. Why? because Pakistan’s ruling class depends on that order for money, weapons, diplomatic cover, and internal regime security.

So, the regime channels rage downward: against Afghans, against demonstrators, against anyone who threatens the “stability” that keeps generals and politicians in place contrary to Allah’s Speech:

[مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ ٱللَّهِ وَٱلَّذِينَ مَعَهُٓ أَشِدَّآءُ عَلَى ٱلْكُفَّارِ رُحَمَآءُ بَيْنَهُمْ]

“Muḥammad is the Messenger of Allah; and those with him are forceful/firm against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves ...” [Surah Al-Fath 48:29].

This is the sad condition of Muslim lands that are ruled as client states: their rulers are brave only against their own people and neighbouring Muslims, and cautious toward the disbelieving hegemon. Muslims become pawns moved around a board whose rules were written abroad.

A serious Muslim politics must name this reality: colonial borders, nationalist myths, and security partnerships with the US have produced a governing class that chooses imperial order over Islamic justice. The solution is not another speech about sovereignty while hosting the very structures that violate it. It is to rebuild political unity on the Islamic basis: one authority that treats Muslim blood as sacred, refuses to be a subcontractor for Western coercion, and ends the humiliation of lines drawn centuries ago by western colonial powers.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Dr. Abdullah Robin