A chilling return to the land where once I sowed hate

Published by You on 21 June, 2009 - 17:25

By Majid Nawaz

Ten years ago, I hoped to inspire an Islamist coup in Pakistan. Going back, I saw the tragic results

Ten years ago, I was sent from Britain by a global Islamist group to recruit in Pakistan. Stepping off the plane in Lahore, I slowly breathed in the scene around me. With minarets and azans almost like background props and mood music, the Muslims I saw in every direction whetted my appetite for revolution. We were going to radicalise the country and foment a military coup against the democratically elected "client" ruler, Nawaz Sharif. I was 21 years old. I was part of a vanguard to set up a Pakistani branch of Hizb ut Tahrir (HT), so that their future caliphate could go nuclear. Nothing was going to get in my way. Nothing did...

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