"I am the prayer (duaa) of my father Ibrahim, a prediction of Issa, and my mother saw in a dream light coming from her (stomach) shining on the castles of Sham." (Imam Ahmad)

Our beloved Prophet (saw) is duaa from Ibrahim (as) as the Qur'an reminds us:

Karachi is potentially a political, ideological and economic powerhouse. Karachi with a population of over twenty million is the world's third largest city, Pakistan's largest city and former capital. Almost one out of every ten Pakistanis is from Karachi. Karachi is a seaport, which connects the region to the Muslim Lands of the Middle East, and is an essential economic lifeline for all the regions of Pakistan.

News:

04 February 2013, Pajhwak News Agency reported in a London meeting between the Afghanistan, Pakistan and Britain heads of state agreed to foster the peace process in Afghanistan and to sign a peace deal. The meeting was held at the house of the British PM David Cameron. Just before this meeting, in a statement released from the office of the PM Cameron, it was mentioned that this meeting of Afghanistan and Pakistan's military and political leadership sends a message to Taliban that the time has come for all sides to join in the peace process.

Comment:

The policy of dialogue with Taliban has been orchestrated in the International Colonialist London Conference so that to convince the opposition forces to take part in the government. In order to make sure the peace process succeed, a Grand Peace Council was established as well as other initiatives were launched, the most recent of which is the meeting of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Britain's heads of states. Before that a headquarter meeting was hosted in Qatar by the Taliban as well as a joint conference was organized in France between Taliban, Hizb-e-Islami, The Peace Council, opposition leaders and other leaders of civil society.

The peace process is on its way at a time when the American and NATO forces are killing hundreds of innocent civilians including women, children and elderly people on a daily basis. They are destroying Masajid and houses, including insult our religion, etc. But alas some of the shameless government-sponsored "Islamic scholars" are busy justifying the peace process with the colonialist invaders by erroneously interpreting some of the verses of Quran and Hadith to the legitimize peace with the foreign invaders. Moreover they, under the guise of a Kufri democratic system, desire to impose the corrupt regime upon the Muslims and Mujahid Nation of Afghanistan.

The spurious policy of dialogue has been well-exposed to the people of Afghanistan both in theory and practice. Moreover through reports published in international media, the murderous plans of the crusaders are very clear. For instance, I would like to mention here the saying of the former U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, while talking to the Mujahedeen time and again that "They have to redundant their relations with Al-Qaida, they have to abandon Arm resistance, and they have to disarm themselves and should accept the constitution of Afghanistan." The question is: Are any of these U.S. conditions Islamic? Which are being offered to the Jihadi organizations to accept. Similarly in October 2010, U.S. spokesman for the Secretary of State said about the leadership of Taliban, "We believe since many years Mullah Umar has started activities like Osama bin Laden, therefore, looking at the current reality and the information we have about him, he is not the option we could even consider." The main points of peace negotiation with Taliban are these, which offer nothing but bowing down to the colonialists. However, the initiatives taken by UK and U.S. at different times are to take control of the booty of the colonist struggle between them. Each one wants maximum gain from the war booty that will come as a result of the so-called peace process.

However, in reality the peace process is being used by the crusaders against the Islamic Ummah to deceive them and to weaken their resistance and divide their strength. On the other hand, it is forbidden in Islam for individuals, political parties and other armed groups to negotiate any peace or war deal with the colonialist invaders. It's only the Khaleefah (the legitimate head of the entire Muslim world) that has the authority and right to talk to any country that the Khilafah "Caliphate" is at war with, like the Treaty of Hudaybia. Moreover, participating in the corrupt democratic system is something the enemy is happy with more than anything else. But being a political or Jihadi organization, we should realize that Democracy cannot solve the problems and is absolutely forbidden to invite people towards democracy and to take part in it, based on the decisive evidences from Quran and Sunnah. Behind the dialogue is an old colonialist policy, the western world has adopted against the Islamic Ummah, which is definitely Divide-Rule policy.

By taking part in the dialogue with Kuffar, both Taliban and Hizb-e-Islami are betraying the blood of thousands of martyrs, who sacrificed everything in the way of their Lord ‘Allah (swt)'.

In addition, the Mujahedeen and the entire Ummah should understand that ejecting the U.S. and NATO forces is not the solution of our problems rather we have to cut the Democratic system from its roots along with the traitor rulers and replace them with the Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" State, which Allah (swt) has prescribed as the only solution to all our problems. A state that will not negotiate with the invaders rather will mobilize the Muslim army to liberate the Ummah and the humanity from the ruthless shackles of Kufr along with its political, cultural and military supremacy, through the foreign policy (Dawah and Jihad) of the Islamic state. The Islamic Ummah should take heed from the Ayah of the Quran, in which Allah (swt) say;

((أَوَلَا يَرَوْنَ أَنَّهُمْ يُفْتَنُونَ فِي كُلِّ عَامٍ مَّرَّةً أَوْ مَرَّتَيْنِ ثُمَّ لَا يَتُوبُونَ وَلَا هُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ))

"Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year, yet they do not turn (to Allah) nor do they mind?" [At-Tawba: 126]

Saifullah Mustanir

Kabul, Afghanistan

Headlines:

• Obama Plans Visit to the Jewish State
• Iran: Syria's Assad Regime Ready to Negotiate
• Saudi Arabia Aid American Drone Attacks in Yemen
• US Supports Pak-Afghan Deadline for Taliban Deal
• China, Japan on the Brink

Details:

Obama Plans Visit to the Jewish State:

President Barack Obama will arrive in the Jewish State with a public agenda of restarting the Middle East peace talks but his private discussions will be dominated by the issue of preventing a nuclear Iran, Israeli officials have told the Daily Telegraph. While the US ambassador to the Jewish entity said today that Mr Obama would visit the country with an "urgent" mission to revive peace negotiations, Israeli diplomats said talks with Benjamin Netanyahu would focus on Iran. "The peace process may be the subject that is initially emphasised in public but there are other issues on the table that must be addressed before the summer," one diplomat said, alluding to Israel's spring deadline for Iran to stop enriching uranium. "The deal they will have done may be on the subject of war, not of peace." Israeli officials also said Mr Netanyahu would look for reassurances that the US would prevent Syria's extensive stocks of chemical weapons - nicknamed "Arms R' Us" by their intelligence - from falling into the hands of al-Qaeda or Hezbollah. "There are currently bigger and much more urgent issues to address than the Palestinian-Israeli conflict," one Israeli official said. John Kerry, the new US Secretary of State, will also travel to Jewish Statein coming weeks, having promised a renewed American diplomatic effort in the region. Dan Shaprio, the US ambassador to Israel, said that the President would stress "the need to Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table" during the trip, which will also include visits to the West Bank and to Jordan. The trip will also give both Mr Obama and Mr Netanyahu a chance for public reconciliation after four years after four years in which they have repeatedly clashed over Iran and Jewish settlement building. "Both Obama and Netanyahu have been criticised by their constituents for failing to build a better relations," one Jewish official said. "They will no doubt revel in a love fest of photo opportunities and joint press conferences."

Iran: Syria's Assad Regime Ready to Negotiate:

Syria's government is ready to sit down with the opposition to bring a two-year uprising against the regime to an end, Iran's foreign minister believes. Ali Akbar Salehi told the Egyptian state news agency MENA: "I think that the Syrian government is ready to negotiate with the opposition." Opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib has offered to talk to Syria's rulers about trying to end the conflict - subject to conditions including the release of 160,000 detainees. But President Bashar al Assad has not yet commented on the offer and a key opposing faction flatly rejected the initiative. The Syrian National Council, the main component of the opposition, has dismissed the possibility of any negotiations. It said it was committed to ousting the Assad regime, rejecting dialogue with it, and protecting the revolution. But Mr Alkhatib, who called on Mr Assad to agree to let Vice President Faruq al Sharaa open peace talks with his coalition, appealed for the opposition to "declare our willingness to negotiate" the regime's departure. However, he also set a deadline of Sunday for the government to release all women detainees; otherwise he would regard his offer of dialogue as rejected by the president. The Assad regime has signalled it believes it can still break the military stalemate, as its forces relentlessly pounded rebel lines around Damascus.

Saudi Arabia Aid American Drone Attacks in Yemen:

The CIA is secretly using an airbase in Saudi Arabia to conduct its controversial drone assassination campaign in neighbouring Yemen, according to reports in the US media. Neither the Saudi government nor the country's media have responded to the reports revealing that the drones that killed the US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and his son in September 2011 and Said al-Shehri, a senior al-Qaida commander who died from his injuries last month, were launched from the unnamed base. Iranian state media highlighted the story, which is also likely to be seized upon by jihadi groups. Saudi Arabia has previously publicly denied co-operating with the US to target al-Qaida in Yemen. Evidence of Saudi involvement risks complicating its relationship with the government in Sana'a and with Yemeni tribal leaders who control large parts of the country. The drone issue is sensitive in Saudi Arabia because of the unpopularity of US military bases, which were thought to have been largely removed after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. "These planes are unmanned so there will not be the same impact as when American planes were flying from the Prince Sultan base," Mustafa Alani of the Gulf Research Centre in Dubai told The Guardian newspaper. He added, "It has been rumoured for years that drones were taking off from the Arabian peninsula so this is not shocking news except for the Iranians and jihadis. Otherwise it is not going register in public opinion." US government requests to American media to refrain from disclosing the location of the CIA base were made in part because it could potentially damage counter-terrorism collaboration with Saudi Arabia.

US Supports Pak-Afghan Deadline for Taliban Deal:

The United States supports a Pak-Afghan deadline for finalising a peace deal with the Taliban and urges insurgents to open a reconciliation post in Qatar as soon as possible, says the US State Department. The Afghan and Pakistani presidents told a news briefing in London on Monday that they have set an optimistic target of six months to reach a peace deal with the Taliban. British Prime Minister David Cameron, who hosted the trilateral meeting, played a key role in setting the first timeframe for a deal with the insurgents. "We fully endorse the contents of the joint statement that those three governments came forward with, and we are committed ourselves to support an Afghan-led process," State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told a briefing in Washington. She recalled that last month US President Barack Obama had met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Washington where the two leaders reaffirmed their faith in an Afghan-led peace and reconciliation process. Such a process was "the surest way to end the violence and ensure lasting stability in Afghanistan and in the region," Ms Nuland added. The United States has remained engaged with the Afghan and Pakistani governments to support this process, said Ms Nuland, noting that talks have been held separately with each of the two governments as well as within the core group, which includes the United States, Afghanistan and Pakistan. "Our goal here has been to support the creation of a process to make it possible ... for willing Taliban participants to talk directly to the Afghan High Peace Council," she said. And that's why the United States also supported the opening of the Taliban office in Qatar, she added.

China, Japan on the Brink:

Chinese warships have pointed missile radars at Japanese military targets and taken the two regional powers to the brink of "a dangerous situation," say Japanese officials. The news marks a dangerous escalation of a four-month diplomatic and military stand-off between Australia's two largest trading partners, involving disputed islets in the East China Sea. Japan's defence minister, Itsunori Onodera, told reporters on Wednesday that a Chinese frigate pointed missile control radar at the Japanese destroyer Yuudachi on January 30. "Something like fire-control radar was directed at a Japan Self-Defense Maritime escort ship in the East China Sea," Mr Onodera told reporters in Tokyo. He also said a Chinese vessel had similarly targeted a Japanese ship-based helicopter two weeks earlier. "This is extremely abnormal behaviour," Mr Onodera said. "One step in the wrong direction could have pushed things into a dangerous situation," he said. China called for calm. In a statement issued ahead of Japan's accusation, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman urged Japan "to stop all provocative actions" including sending vessels and planes to the Diaoyu Islands, known as Senkaku in Japanese. "We hope Japan can take actions to show sincerity and willingness to work with China through talks and negotiations to control and manage the current situation," said spokesman Hua Chunying. Diplomats and military officials in the United States, Japan and China had previously warned that the dispute was only one accident away from open military conflict.

Abu Hashim