PESHAWAR, Jan 9: Hizbul Tehrir has asked the government to disassociate itself from “the so-called international coalition against terrorism and stop cooperation with the American crusaders.”

Speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday, organisation member Zulfikar Ali claimed that the policies of Gen Musharraf’s government had jeopardised the security of the country by allowing the United States of America to station its forces in Pakistan.

He said the country’s military infrastructure, nuclear installations and the on-going Jihad in occupied Kashmir were extremely vulnerable to a combined American and Indian military adventurism.

Expressing the apprehension over the presence of US forces on Pakistan’s soil, he said it could seriously undermine the national security and “will provide opportunity to India to rule over the Muslims of the Subcontinent.”

Zulfikar said the government had “committed political suicide” by linking the country’s security with American interests, and observed that the US government had directed its policies at those countries that had the capability to block American influence.

After dislodging the Taliban government in Afghanistan, he said, America had made Pakistan the next target, and claimed: “India has escalated tension on our eastern border at the behest of the US.”

Further criticising the government policies, he alleged that President Gen Pervez Musharraf had declared Taliban and freedom fighters terrorists to “appease his foreign masters.” American forces, Zulfikar said, were in Pakistan for a long stay.

Hizbul Tehrir, a radical Islamic group with its branches in all Muslim countries, was struggling “to establish a true Khilafah system in Muslim countries.”

The organisation, he said, did not believe in the nation-state, saying that the Hizb wanted promulgation of Islamic judicial, political and economic systems in the Islamic world.

The formation of Taliban government was a golden opportunity for the revival of Khilafah Rashida in Pakistan and Afghanistan that could have been extended to other Muslim countries, he remarked.