Tuesday’s Arab-Israeli peace summit in Annapolis, Maryland, is supposed to be about resolving long-standing Palestinian issues, the Golan Heights, and other contentious matters.

What are the objectives of the peace conference? Why are the Arab rulers participating in this conference and what do they hope to gain? Can a two state solution work?

As Muslims, how should we view the Arab Peace Conference and any resulting agreements within the region?

Friday 30th November 2007

Time: 7.30pm

Speaker: Abu Talha

Venue: Small Heath Community Centre, Muntz St. Birmingham

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In 1998, John Burns of the New Your Times wrote:

“Benazir Bhutto is at the heart of a widening corruption inquiry that Pakistani investigators say has traced more than $100 million to foreign bank accounts and properties controlled by Bhutto’s family.”

“have detailed a pattern of secret payments by foreign companies that sought business favors during Bhutto’s two terms as Pakistan’s prime minister.”

“Together, the documents provided an extraordinarily detailed look at high-level corruption in Pakistan, a nation so poor that perhaps 70 percent of its 130 million people are illiterate, and millions have no proper shelter, no schools, no hospitals, not even safe drinking water. During Bhutto’s five years in power, the country became so enfeebled that she spent much of her time negotiating loans to stave off default on more than $62 billion in public debt.”

So the question that people are now asking is: what has changed? Why is it that all the rulers that Pakistan is entrusted with, seem to line only their own pockets?

How do we respond? Do we become pessimistic and defeatest, or is there a way out from this?

This talk will highlight how the Khilafah will deal with the problem of Pakistans political corruption. 

7.30pm on Friday 23rd November 2007

Speaker: Qaisar Najib

Venue: Small Heath Community Centre, Small Heath , Birmingham. UK

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Pakistan faces a number of challenges on both political and economic fronts. Reports by the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the UN Development Program place the poverty rate in Pakistan between 23% – 28%. In 2006 the CIA factbook placed the poverty rate at 24%. Although Large amounts of foreign investments have been made into several industries, will these have any effect?

It is not sufficient to change from military leaders to political leaders without changing the underlying political system. It will not work now, nor has it ever worked in the past. Having President Musharraf in uniform or without uniform does not alter the basis of the political system nor does it change the fundamental economic and foreign policies that have brought Pakistan to its knees. Indeed if one was to read the headline from October 1999, just before the last coup that brought the army into power, some of the very same editorials and opinion pieces that today complain about military rule were lambasting the records of political parties and calling for the military to intervene. The need of  the hour is not secular democracy or for General Musharraf to remove his uniform, but the return of the Islamic Khilafah.

How will the Khilafah solve the economic problems of Pakistan?

Venue: Small Heath Community Centre, Muntz St., Birmingham

Speaker: Dr. Imran Waheed

Time: 7.30pm

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General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s military ruler, carried out a second coup d’état at the weekend in a desperate attempt to cling to power and prolong his destabilising rule.

Pakistan remains an important, pivotal country. It is an essential bastion of the American position in the Middle East. Without Pakistan as an ally, it is hard to see how the US could maintain its position in Afghanistan. General Musharraf is pro-Western.

Is Gen Musharraf is acting to protect his country or is  this move to protect his power from judicial and political challenge?

Does Pakistan need a new leadership and new system? Can re-establishing the Caliphate take power away from the feudal landowners and the rich industrialists? How will it implement the real rule of law, produce economic prosperity for the many and not the few and ensure political decisions on the future of Pakistan are made in Islamabad, not London or Washington? Come and participate.

Brothers, Sisters and Families Welcome

Venue: Small Heath Community Centre, Muntz St. Birmingham

Time: 7.30pm

Speaker: Nadeem Burhani and Farooq Khan

Talk 1: Pakistan First or Busharraf First? by Nadeem Burhani

Talk 2: Time for new leadership by Farooq Khan

 Pakistan: Time For a New Leadership and a New System

Hizb-ut-Tahrir call on you to speak out against the corruption and failure of the western-backed leaderships of the past 60 years at a conference organised to articulate the need for a new independent leadership and a new Islamic system for Pakistan

Hizb ut Tahrir Britain has organised a conference to discuss the vital need for a new leadership and system in Pakistan-an alternative to the failed political framework of the past 60 years. It is vital for the Pakistani community and all Muslims to contribute to this discussion and make their voices united.

Venue: Freinds Meeting House Lonond
Date:  1st December 2007
Time:  6pm