Muslim Wars within the Nation-State Framework:
Playing on the Devil’s Field
(Translated)

News:

While the Muslim Ummah is experiencing the mercy of the blessed month of Ramadan, the continued airstrikes and artillery attacks by the Pakistani army on various provinces of Afghanistan, including the capital Kabul, have triggered a new wave of humanitarian catastrophe. These attacks, which deliberately targeted weapons depots and residential areas, have resulted in the martyrdom and injury of hundreds of civilians, including fasting women and children.

At the same time, the systematic closure of vital crossings along the artificial and colonial Durand Line has imposed economic losses estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars on industrialists and traders, and has placed millions of Muslim families on both sides of the border in a severe livelihood and humanitarian crisis. Along with reciprocal and heavy responses by Afghan border forces, this has pushed tensions toward a dangerous point approaching no return.

Comment:

What is unfolding today along the blood-stained border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is not merely a dispute between two neighbors. Rather, it is part of a geopolitically engineered project conceived in the policy and decision-making rooms of colonial America and implemented through regional contractors in Islamabad.

The strategic reality is that the Pakistani army—under circles that define their political and military survival as obedient subservience to the United States—has been tasked with destroying the remnants of advanced weaponry left behind by the American occupiers in Afghan territory.

This disarmament project is, in reality, a political gift prepared by Islamabad’s generals to win the favor of Donald Trump and secure continued support from Washington. Using bombardment and economic pressure, they seek to transform Kabul from an independent regional actor into a compliant pawn, so that the balance of power does not shift in favor of the region’s political independence and against U.S. and Indian interests.

Yet, the most shameful dimension of this scenario is the violation of Muslim blood during the most sacred days of the year. While believers’ hearts in Ramadan rise toward their Creator, Pakistan’s military rulers—who claim leadership of the strongest army in the Islamic world and possession of nuclear weapons—have aimed their tanks and bombers at the mud homes of their Muslim brothers, instead of intimidating the usurping Zionist regime or defending the oppressed Muslims of Kashmir against the criminal Modi.
This is the very hypocrisy that erodes the Ummah from within: an army that should have been a defensive shield against the occupation of Gaza, Jerusalem, and Kashmir, is today—on behalf of colonialism—playing the role of a “regional gendarme” to suppress any Islamic movement.

Pakistan’s current political and military rulers, from Shehbaz Sharif to Asim Munir, through a silent political coup and the management of manufactured crises, seek to divert public attention from economic collapse, structural corruption, and a domestic legitimacy crisis. By keeping the borders closed and placing pressure on migrants, they have effectively declared war on the livelihoods of millions of Muslims. This continued border closure is not for security, but for extracting political concessions from Western patrons.

The greater betrayal is that the same army remains silent in the face of India’s crimes in Kashmir and, regarding Gaza, instead of military action to save the oppressed, signals a green light within colonial plans aimed at disarming the Mujahideen and securing the safety of the Jewish state.

The roots of many of these crises lie in the artificial Durand Line—a wound inflicted on the chest of the unified Muslim Ummah by old British colonialism, and one that the United States exploits today to deepen division within the Ummah. Leaders on both sides must understand that falling into the trap of false nationalist ideology is nothing but playing on the devil’s field. A sincere political leader is not one who sacrifices his Muslim brother to please Trump, Netanyahu, or Modi; rather, it is one who views matters through the lens of Islamic creed and administers the affairs of the Ummah solely on the basis of Islamic thought and rulings.

The fundamental solution to this crisis does not lie in humiliating negotiations conducted under the supervision of mercenary, leash-held envoys of colonialism, but in dismantling these imposed and artificial borders together with the oppressive ruling regimes. The time has come for sincere officers in the Pakistani army and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to redirect their weapons toward the real enemies of the Ummah—America, India, the Zionist regime, and other occupying powers in the region.

The only path to dignity is moving toward the establishment of the Second Rightly Guided Caliphate (Khilafah Rashidah) upon the method of Prophethood—a single power that unites the region’s nuclear, military, economic, and demographic capacity not for fratricide, but for the liberation of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Kashmir, and East Turkestan, and for carrying Islam to the world.

[وَأَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ وَلَا تَنَازَعُوا فَتَفْشَلُوا وَتَذْهَبَ رِيحُكُمْ]

“Obey Allah and His Messenger and do not dispute, lest you lose courage and your strength depart.” [Qur’an 8:46]

If you do not abandon dispute and hypocrisy, your authority and power will disappear. The treacherous rulers who today bomb their Muslim brothers under Trump’s backing must know that history and the divine court of justice will never forgive them for betraying the Ummah and serving colonialism.

The dawn of victory belongs to those who remove the borders of fitnah and hold firmly to the rope of the Ummah’s intellectual, political, and geographical unity—namely, establishing a global leadership to implement Islam and protect Muslims (the Second Rashidun Caliphate upon the method of Prophethood).

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Yousof Arsalan
Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Afghanistan