London UK, 17 February 2009 - Today's Guardian newspaper report that the UK government is drafting plans that will effectively label core aspects of Islam, shared by all schools of Islamic jurisprudence, as 'extremist'.

Hizb ut-Tahrir Wilayah Pakistan held a book launching ceremony of its manifesto in Lahore.  The title of the booklet is ‘Pakistan, Khilafah "Caliphate" and the unification of the Muslim world'.  Speaking at the occasion the spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir Pakistan, Mr. Naveed Butt said that for the past fifty years Hizb ut-Tahrir

Today a lecture was planned which was organized by the Islamic student association Al-Furqan, concerning the situation in Gaza and the ongoing criminal acts of the Jewish state against the children and women there. This lecture would be given by me. However some particular parties were not pleased with it and put all their efforts to stop this lecture.

On the 18th of December 2008, in the Daily Nawa-e-Waqt Lahore edition a news item was printed entitled "Aath barsoon kay doraan hukomat nay darjan say zaid jihadee tanzeemoon per pabandee aaed ki" in which along with various other groups Hizb ut-Tahrir was portrayed as a militant group. Though Hizb ut-Tahrir considers the ongoing Jihad to rid foreign occupation in Kashmir, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and various