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Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid (, born 14 March 1964) is a Pakistani Islamist political commentator and conspiracy theorist.
Born to a Pakistan Army officer and a Kashmiri Muslims mother, Zaid is a supporter of jihad and supports Kashmir-centric anti-India organizations. He claims he fought in Soviet-Afghan War. He is a supporter of Pakistan Army interventions in matters of state and actively campaigns against democracy in Pakistan. He supports an Islamic state.
In 2019, The Muslim 500 included him in their yearly most influential Muslims in the world, as a political commentator and host of the Brass Tacks TV series on Geopolitics, Islamic philosophy, Muslim history, and Muhammad Iqbal’s vision for Pakistan.
Historian Manan Ahmed Asif called him the leading voice of a new Pakistani revivalism, because he radicalizes young, urban men and women under the age of 30 — the largest demographics of Pakistan — into a mixture of militant Pakistani nationalism and Islamism.Manan Ahmed (11 March 2010), "Pakistan's new paranoia", The National UAE. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
In 2013, Imaad Khalid, a former staff member of Zaid Hamid, revealed at a press conference, that Zaid Hamid was plotting to assassinate pro-democracy army chief, Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani. He showed to the media the emails that he claims were sent by Zaid Hamid to different army officers asking to revolt against their own chief. He said "Zaid Hamid is a quisling and enemy of Islam and Pakistan, who had plotted unsuccessfully to assassinate the pro-democracy army chief Gen Kayani." Khalid further claimed that Zaid's hit list also contained the names of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and others from the media and the judiciary.
Hamid believes that Islamic-prophet Muhammad had declared war on India, a claim with no reference in Islam, and that India will be "trounced and enslaved according to Sharia if Hindus don’t repent and embrace Islam."
Hamid claims that the 2008 Mumbai attacks (26/11 attacks), terror attacks in India by the Lashkar-e-Taiba, were actually part of a plan hatched by "Hindu Zionists", and that it was an attempt by the Indians to stage a false flag attack, which he also accuses the 9/11 attacks of being.
On May 27, 2011, he claimed on the News One TV channel that Ajmal Kasab's, the only 26/11 perpetrator arrested alive, was actually Amar Singh and a Sikh and a Research and Analysis Wing agent. He also called him a Bharatiya Janata Party terrorist.
In May 2020, Zaid Hamid said that the COVID-19 vaccine will rid the Muslims of Islamic spirit and that COVID is less dangerous than flu. Adding that Bill Gates wanted to kill the people of the region.
During an interview in 2020, Hamid claimed that then Pakistan Army chief Raheel Sharif and DG ISI Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar had played an instrumental role in securing his release.
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